1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to state government; appropriating money for environment and natural 
1.3 	resources and tourism; modifying previous appropriations; establishing new 
1.4 	programs and modifying existing programs; modifying fees; creating accounts; 
1.5 	authorizing sales and conveyances of certain land; modifying environmental laws; 
1.6 	modifying game and fish laws; modifying water laws; modifying natural resource 
1.7 	and environment laws; modifying mining laws; requiring reports; making technical 
1.8 	corrections;amending Minnesota Statutes 2020, sections 84.027, subdivision 14a, 
1.9 	by adding a subdivision; 84.632; 84.788, subdivision 5; 84.82, subdivision 2, by 
1.10 	adding a subdivision; 84.821, subdivision 2; 84.84; 84.86, subdivision 1; 84.922, 
1.11 	subdivision 4; 85.015, subdivision 10; 90.181, subdivision 2; 97A.015, subdivisions 
1.12 	29, 51; 97A.126, as amended; 97A.137, subdivisions 3, 5; 97A.405, subdivision 
1.13 	5; 97B.031, subdivision 1, by adding a subdivision; 97B.071; 97B.311; 97B.415; 
1.14 	97B.645, subdivision 9; 97B.668; 97C.211, subdivision 2a; 97C.315, subdivision 
1.15 	1; 97C.515, subdivision 2; 103G.201; 103G.211; 103G.223; 103G.271, subdivision 
1.16 	7, by adding a subdivision; 103G.285, by adding a subdivision; 103G.287, 
1.17 	subdivisions 4, 5, by adding subdivisions; 103G.289; 115.03, subdivision 1; 
1.18 	115.455; 115.55, by adding a subdivision; 115.77, subdivision 1; 115.84, 
1.19 	subdivisions 2, 3; 115A.03, subdivision 35, by adding subdivisions; 115B.52, 
1.20 	subdivision 4; 116.03, subdivision 2b; 116.07, subdivision 4d, by adding a 
1.21 	subdivision; 116B.03, subdivision 1; 116B.10, by adding a subdivision; 116D.04, 
1.22 	subdivision 2a; 116U.55, by adding a subdivision; 127A.353, subdivision 2; 282.04, 
1.23 	subdivision 1, by adding a subdivision; 282.08; 297A.94; Minnesota Statutes 2021 
1.24 	Supplement, sections 84.63; 84.631; 84.92, subdivision 8; 85.052, subdivision 6; 
1.25 	92.502; 103G.271, subdivision 4a; 127A.353, subdivision 4; Laws 2021, First 
1.26 	Special Session chapter 6, article 1, section 2, subdivision 2; proposing coding for 
1.27 	new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapters 93; 115A; repealing Minnesota Statutes 
1.28 	2020, sections 97B.318; 97C.515, subdivisions 4, 5; Laws 2012, chapter 236, 
1.29 	section 28, subdivision 9, as amended; Laws 2013, chapter 121, section 53; 
1.30 	Minnesota Rules, parts 6100.5000, subparts 3, 4, 5; 6100.5700, subpart 4; 
1.31 	6232.0350.
2.1 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

2.2 	ARTICLE 1
2.3 	APPROPRIATIONS

2.4	Section 1. ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES APPROPRIATIONS.
 	
2.5 	The sums shown in the columns marked "Appropriations" are appropriated to the agencies 
2.6 	and for the purposes specified in this article. The appropriations are from the general fund, 
2.7 	or another named fund, and are available for the fiscal years indicated for each purpose. 
2.8 	The figures "2022" and "2023" used in this article mean that the appropriations listed under 
2.9 	them are available for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, or June 30, 2023, respectively. 
2.10 	"The first year" is fiscal year 2022. "The second year" is fiscal year 2023. "The biennium" 
2.11 	is fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, are 
2.12 	effective the day following final enactment.

2.13				APPROPRIATIONS
	
2.14				Available for the Year
	
2.15				Ending June 30
	
2.16					2022
		2023

2.17	Sec. 2. POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY

2.18	Subdivision 1.Total Appropriation
 	$
	-0-
	$
	4,093,000

2.19	Appropriations by Fund
	
2.20		2022
	2023
	
2.21	Environmental
	-0-
	2,593,000
	
2.22	Remediation
	-0-
	1,500,000
	
2.23 	The amounts that may be spent for each 
2.24 	purpose are specified in the following 
2.25 	subdivisions.

2.26	Subd. 2.Agency Appropriations
 					
2.27 	(a) $86,000 the second year is from the 
2.28 	environmental fund for a grant to Laketown 
2.29 	Township in Carver County to prepare 
2.30 	preliminary system design and cost estimates 
2.31 	for connecting wastewater systems around 
2.32 	Pierson Lake to municipal wastewater 
2.33 	treatment systems. This is a onetime 
2.34 	appropriation.
3.1 	(b) $700,000 the second year is from the 
3.2 	environmental fund for additional SCORE 
3.3 	block grants to counties.
3.4 	(c) $671,000 the second year is from the 
3.5 	environmental fund for whole effluent toxicity 
3.6 	rulemaking. This is a onetime appropriation.
3.7 	(d) $96,000 the second year is from the 
3.8 	environmental fund for agency oversight of 
3.9 	the mattress recycling program.
3.10 	(e) $50,000 the second year is from the 
3.11 	environmental fund to conduct an analysis of 
3.12 	how states within Environmental Protection 
3.13 	Agency Region 5 fund their air permitting 
3.14 	programs. By January 15, 2024, the 
3.15 	commissioner must report the results of the 
3.16 	analysis to the chairs and ranking minority 
3.17 	members of the house of representatives and 
3.18 	senate committees and divisions with 
3.19 	jurisdiction over environment and natural 
3.20 	resources. The report must include: (1) 
3.21 	identification of all sources of funding for 
3.22 	Minnesota's air permitting program and those 
3.23 	of each of the other states within Region 5; 
3.24 	(2) a summary of how the funding sources 
3.25 	have changed during the last 20 years; (3) an 
3.26 	analysis of the cost that Minnesota's air 
3.27 	permitting program and those of each state 
3.28 	within Region 5 imposes on permittees; (4) a 
3.29 	summary of how the costs identified in clause 
3.30 	(3) have changed in the last 20 years and how 
3.31 	they relate to total permittee emissions; (5) 
3.32 	identification of potential alternatives to 
3.33 	Minnesota's current practice of increasing the 
3.34 	per-ton air emission fee as emissions are 
3.35 	reduced; and (6) an assessment of what policy 
4.1 	changes, legal changes, and funding changes 
4.2 	would be required to successfully implement 
4.3 	a program that did not increase permittee cost 
4.4 	as air emissions are reduced. This is a onetime 
4.5 	appropriation.
4.6 	(f) $1,500,000 the second year is from the 
4.7 	remediation fund for a contamination cleanup 
4.8 	grant to Lake of the Woods County to 
4.9 	demolish the abandoned state-owned Williams 
4.10 	School building in the city of Williams and to 
4.11 	abate and remediate petroleum, pollutants, or 
4.12 	contaminants at the school site. This is a 
4.13 	onetime appropriation and is available until 
4.14 	June 30, 2025.
4.15 	(g) $250,000 the second year is from the 
4.16 	environmental fund for a grant to the Red 
4.17 	River Basin Commission to facilitate 
4.18 	development of a feasibility assessment of 
4.19 	adaptive phosphorus management for the Red 
4.20 	River of the North. This is a onetime 
4.21 	appropriation and is available until December 
4.22 	31, 2023.

4.23
4.24	Subd. 3.Environmental Quality Board 
Appropriations
 					
4.25 	$740,000 the second year is from the 
4.26 	environmental fund to develop and assemble 
4.27 	the material required under Code of Federal 
4.28 	Regulations, title 40, section 233.10, for the 
4.29 	state to assume the section 404 permitting 
4.30 	program of the federal Clean Water Act. The 
4.31 	board must prepare the materials in 
4.32 	cooperation with the commissioners of natural 
4.33 	resources, the Board of Water and Soil 
4.34 	Resources, and the Pollution Control Agency 
4.35 	and may execute contracts or interagency 
5.1 	agreements to facilitate developing the 
5.2 	required materials. By December 31, 2024, 
5.3 	the board must submit a report that includes 
5.4 	a detailed summary of the necessary 
5.5 	programmatic changes, drafts of pertinent 
5.6 	application materials, the required statute 
5.7 	changes, final cost estimates, the remaining 
5.8 	steps necessary for the state to secure 
5.9 	assumption, and recommendations for 
5.10 	implementing a state-assumed program to the 
5.11 	chairs and ranking minority members of the 
5.12 	legislative committees and divisions with 
5.13 	jurisdiction over the environment and natural 
5.14 	resources. This is a onetime appropriation, is 
5.15 	available until June 30, 2025, and may be used 
5.16 	to match federal funding for a similar purpose. 
5.17 	The Board of Water and Soil Resources and 
5.18 	the commissioner of natural resources, in 
5.19 	consultation with the commissioner of the 
5.20 	Pollution Control Agency, must make 
5.21 	application for assumption to the United States 
5.22 	Environmental Protection Agency by June 30, 
5.23 	2025.

5.24	Sec. 3. NATURAL RESOURCES

5.25	Subdivision 1.Total Appropriation
 	$
	-0-
	$
	2,520,000

5.26	Appropriations by Fund
	
5.27		2022
	2023
	
5.28	Natural Resources
	-0-
	1,487,000
	
5.29	Game and Fish
	-0-
	1,033,000
	
5.30 	The amounts that may be spent for each 
5.31 	purpose are specified in the following 
5.32 	subdivisions.

6.1	Subd. 2.Appropriations
 					
6.2 	(a) $447,000 the second year is from the 
6.3 	all-terrain vehicle account in the natural 
6.4 	resources fund for a grant to the Roseau Lake 
6.5 	of the Woods Sportsman's Club, in 
6.6 	cooperation with the Northstar Trail Alliance, 
6.7 	to resurface 13 miles of the former railroad 
6.8 	right-of-way between Roseau and Warroad. 
6.9 	This is a onetime appropriation and is 
6.10 	available until June 30, 2025.
6.11 	(b) $500,000 the second year is from the 
6.12 	all-terrain vehicle account in the natural 
6.13 	resources fund for a grant to St. Louis County 
6.14 	to match other funding sources for design, 
6.15 	right-of-way acquisition, permitting, and 
6.16 	construction of trails within the Voyageur 
6.17 	Country ATV trail system. This is a onetime 
6.18 	appropriation and is available until June 30, 
6.19 	2025. This appropriation may be used as a 
6.20 	local match to a 2022 state bonding award.
6.21 	(c) $500,000 the second year is from the 
6.22 	all-terrain vehicle account in the natural 
6.23 	resources fund for a grant to St. Louis County 
6.24 	to match other funding sources for design, 
6.25 	right-of-way acquisition, permitting, and 
6.26 	construction of a new trail within the 
6.27 	Prospector trail system. This is a onetime 
6.28 	appropriation and is available until June 30, 
6.29 	2025. This appropriation may be used as a 
6.30 	local match to a 2022 state bonding award.
6.31 	(d) $40,000 the second year is from the 
6.32 	off-road vehicle account in the natural 
6.33 	resources fund for grants to qualifying off-road 
6.34 	vehicle organizations to assist in safety and 
6.35 	environmental education and monitoring trails 
7.1 	on public lands under Minnesota Statutes, 
7.2 	section 84.9011. Grants issued under this 
7.3 	paragraph must be issued through a formal 
7.4 	agreement with the organization. By 
7.5 	December 15 each year, an organization 
7.6 	receiving a grant under this paragraph must 
7.7 	report to the commissioner with details on 
7.8 	expenditures and outcomes from the grant. Of 
7.9 	this amount, $4,000 is for administering the 
7.10 	grants.
7.11 	(e) $150,000 the second year is from the 
7.12 	heritage enhancement account in the game and 
7.13 	fish fund for additional shooting sports facility 
7.14 	grants under Minnesota Statutes, section 
7.15 	87A.10. This is a onetime appropriation and 
7.16 	is available until June 30, 2024.
7.17 	(f) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, 
7.18 	section 297A.94, $387,000 the second year is 
7.19 	from the heritage enhancement account in the 
7.20 	game and fish fund for additional costs 
7.21 	associated with hydrological analyses for 
7.22 	proposed water appropriation permit 
7.23 	applications that have been denied due to the 
7.24 	effects to a calcareous fen.
7.25 	(g) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, 
7.26 	section 297A.94, $496,000 the second year is 
7.27 	from the heritage enhancement account in the 
7.28 	game and fish fund for costs associated with 
7.29 	citizen engagement and water supply 
7.30 	development engineering for ensuring 
7.31 	sustainable groundwater levels in White Bear 
7.32 	Lake. Of this amount, $102,000 is transferred 
7.33 	to the commissioner of health. This is a 
7.34 	onetime appropriation and is available until 
7.35 	June 30, 2024.

8.1	Sec. 4. EXPLORE MINNESOTA TOURISM

8.2	Subdivision 1.Total Appropriation
 	$
	-0-
	$
	1,450,000

8.3	Appropriations by Fund
	
8.4		2022
	2023
	
8.5	General
	-0-
	1,000,000
	
8.6	Natural Resources
	-0-
	450,000
	
8.7 	The amounts that may be spent for each 
8.8 	purpose are specified in the following 
8.9 	subdivisions.

8.10	Subd. 2.Appropriations
 					
8.11 	(a) $1,000,000 the second year is from the 
8.12 	general fund for a grant to Minnesota Sports 
8.13 	and Events to attract and promote large-scale 
8.14 	sporting and other events to the state of 
8.15 	Minnesota. This is a onetime appropriation.
8.16 	(b) $450,000 the second year is from the 
8.17 	events promotion account in the natural 
8.18 	resources fund for a grant to Minnesota Sports 
8.19 	and Events to attract and promote large-scale 
8.20 	sporting and other events to the state of 
8.21 	Minnesota. At least 50 percent of the money 
8.22 	appropriated under this paragraph must be to 
8.23 	attract and promote large-scale sporting and 
8.24 	other events outside of the metropolitan area.

8.25 	Sec. 5. Laws 2021, First Special Session chapter 6, article 1, section 2, subdivision 2, is 
8.26 	amended to read:

8.27	Subd. 2.Environmental Analysis and Outcomes
 		14,962,000
		14,140,000

8.28	Appropriations by Fund
	
8.29		2022
	2023
	
8.30	General
	1,292,000
	224,000
	
8.31	Environmental
	13,469,000
	13,715,000
	
8.32	Remediation
	201,000
	201,000
	
9.1 	(a) $99,000 the first year and $109,000 the 
9.2 	second year are from the general fund for:
9.3 	(1) a municipal liaison to assist municipalities 
9.4 	in implementing and participating in the 
9.5 	rulemaking process for water quality standards 
9.6 	and navigating the NPDES/SDS permitting 
9.7 	process;
9.8 	(2) enhanced economic analysis in the 
9.9 	rulemaking process for water quality 
9.10 	standards, including more-specific analysis 
9.11 	and identification of cost-effective permitting;
9.12 	(3) developing statewide economic analyses 
9.13 	and templates to reduce the amount of 
9.14 	information and time required for 
9.15 	municipalities to apply for variances from 
9.16 	water quality standards; and
9.17 	(4) coordinating with the Public Facilities 
9.18 	Authority to identify and advocate for the 
9.19 	resources needed for municipalities to achieve 
9.20 	permit requirements.
9.21 	(b) $205,000 the first year and $205,000 the 
9.22 	second year are from the environmental fund 
9.23 	for a monitoring program under Minnesota 
9.24 	Statutes, section 116.454.
9.25 	(c) $115,000 the first year and $115,000 the 
9.26 	second year are for monitoring water quality 
9.27 	and operating assistance programs.
9.28 	(d) $347,000 the first year and $347,000 the 
9.29 	second year are from the environmental fund 
9.30 	for monitoring ambient air for hazardous 
9.31 	pollutants.
9.32 	(e) $90,000 the first year and $90,000 the 
9.33 	second year are from the environmental fund 
10.1 	for duties related to harmful chemicals in 
10.2 	children's products under Minnesota Statutes, 
10.3 	sections 116.9401 to 116.9407. Of this 
10.4 	amount, $57,000 each year is transferred to 
10.5 	the commissioner of health.
10.6 	(f) $109,000 the first year and $109,000 the 
10.7 	second year are from the environmental fund 
10.8 	for registering wastewater laboratories.
10.9 	(g) $926,000 the first year and $926,000 the 
10.10 	second year are from the environmental fund 
10.11 	to continue perfluorochemical biomonitoring 
10.12 	in eastern metropolitan communities, as 
10.13 	recommended by the Environmental Health 
10.14 	Tracking and Biomonitoring Advisory Panel, 
10.15 	and to address other environmental health 
10.16 	risks, including air quality. The communities 
10.17 	must include Hmong and other immigrant 
10.18 	farming communities. Of this amount, up to 
10.19 	$689,000 the first year and $689,000 the 
10.20 	second year are for transfer to the Department 
10.21 	of Health.
10.22 	(h) $51,000 the first year and $51,000 the 
10.23 	second year are from the environmental fund 
10.24 	for the listing procedures for impaired waters 
10.25 	required under this act.
10.26 	(i) $350,000 the first year is for completing 
10.27 	the St. Louis River mercury total maximum 
10.28 	daily load study. This is a onetime 
10.29 	appropriation and is available until June 30,  
10.30 	2023.
10.31 	(j) $141,000 the first year and $141,000 the 
10.32 	second year are from the environmental fund 
10.33 	to implement and enforce Minnesota Statutes, 
10.34 	section 325F.071. Of this amount, up to 
11.1 	$65,000 each year may be transferred to the 
11.2 	commissioner of health.
11.3 	(k) $600,000 the first year is to develop and 
11.4 	implement an initiative to reduce sources of 
11.5 	perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances 
11.6 	(PFAS) in the environment that are eventually 
11.7 	conveyed to municipal wastewater treatment 
11.8 	facilities. In developing and implementing the 
11.9 	initiative, the commissioner must work in 
11.10 	cooperation with the Department of Health 
11.11 	and with an advisory group consisting of one 
11.12 	representative designated by each of the 
11.13 	following: the League of Minnesota Cities; 
11.14 	the Coalition of Greater Minnesota Cities; the 
11.15 	Minnesota Environmental Science and 
11.16 	Economic Review Board; the Minnesota 
11.17 	Municipal Utilities Association; Metropolitan 
11.18 	Council Environmental Services; Minnesota 
11.19 	Association of Small Cities; National Waste 
11.20 	and Recycling Association; Minnesota Rural 
11.21 	Water Association; Association of Minnesota 
11.22 	Counties; Solid Waste Administrators 
11.23 	Association; Partnership on Waste and Energy; 
11.24 	Minnesota Resource Recovery Association; 
11.25 	Minnesota InterCounty Association; 
11.26 	Minnesota Manufacturer's Coalition; and the 
11.27 	Association of Metropolitan Municipalities. 
11.28 	In developing and implementing the municipal 
11.29 	initiative, the commissioner must:
11.30 	(1) identify sources of PFAS introduced into 
11.31 	the environment that are eventually conveyed 
11.32 	to municipal wastewater treatment facilities 
11.33 	and contained in solid waste that are disposed 
11.34 	at solid waste facilities;
12.1 	(2) identify source reduction strategies that 
12.2 	can effectively reduce the amount of PFAS 
12.3 	entering the environment that are eventually 
12.4 	conveyed to municipal wastewater treatment 
12.5 	facilities or are disposed at solid waste 
12.6 	facilities;
12.7 	(3) publish and distribute throughout the state 
12.8 	guidance documents for local governments 
12.9 	that include education materials about 
12.10 	effective strategies to reduce PFAS sources;
12.11 	(4) identify issues for future study; and
12.12 	(5) by January 31, 2023, report to the chairs 
12.13 	and ranking minority members of the house 
12.14 	of representatives and senate committees and 
12.15 	divisions with jurisdiction over the 
12.16 	environment and natural resources on the 
12.17 	development and implementation of the 
12.18 	initiative. This is a onetime appropriation.
12.19 	(l) $104,000 the second year is from the 
12.20 	environmental fund for the purposes of the 
12.21 	perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances 
12.22 	food packaging provisions under Minnesota 
12.23 	Statutes, section 325F.075. The base for this 
12.24 	appropriation in fiscal year 2024 and later is 
12.25 	$144,000.
12.26 	(m) $128,000 the first year is for an analysis 
12.27 	of the Green Tier program. This is a onetime 
12.28 	appropriation.
12.29 	(n) $250,000 the first year and $250,000 the 
12.30 	second year are from the environmental fund 
12.31 	for identifying potential sources of per- and 
12.32 	poly-fluoroalkyl substances contamination. 
12.33 	This is a onetime appropriation.

13.1 	ARTICLE 2
13.2 	ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES POLICY

13.3 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 84.027, subdivision 14a, is amended to read:
13.4 		Subd. 14a.Permitting efficiency; public notice. (a) It is the goal of the state that 
13.5 	environmental and resource management permits be issued or denied within 90 days for 
13.6 	tier 1 permits or 150 days for tier 2 permits following submission of a permit application. 
13.7 	The commissioner of natural resources shall establish management systems designed to 
13.8 	achieve the goal.
13.9 	(b) The commissioner shall prepare an annual permitting efficiency report that includes 
13.10 	statistics on meeting the goal in paragraph (a) and the criteria for tier 2 by permit categories. 
13.11 	The report is due August October 1 each year. For permit applications that have not met 
13.12 	the goal, the report must state the reasons for not meeting the goal. In stating the reasons 
13.13 	for not meeting the goal, the commissioner shall separately identify delays caused by the 
13.14 	responsiveness of the proposer, lack of staff, scientific or technical disagreements, or the 
13.15 	level of public engagement. The report must specify the number of days from initial 
13.16 	submission of the application to the day of determination that the application is complete. 
13.17 	The report must aggregate the data for the year and assess whether program or system 
13.18 	changes are necessary to achieve the goal. The report must be posted on the department's 
13.19 	website and submitted to the governor and the chairs and ranking minority members of the 
13.20 	house of representatives and senate committees having jurisdiction over natural resources 
13.21 	policy and finance.
13.22 	(c) The commissioner shall allow electronic submission of environmental review and 
13.23 	permit documents to the department.
13.24 	(d) Within 30 business days of application for a permit subject to paragraph (a), the 
13.25 	commissioner of natural resources shall notify the permit applicant, in writing, whether the 
13.26 	application is complete or incomplete. If the commissioner determines that an application 
13.27 	is incomplete, the notice to the applicant must enumerate all deficiencies, citing specific 
13.28 	provisions of the applicable rules and statutes, and advise the applicant on how the 
13.29 	deficiencies can be remedied. If the commissioner determines that the application is complete, 
13.30 	the notice must confirm the application's tier 1 or tier 2 permit status. If the commissioner 
13.31 	believes that a complete application for a tier 2 construction permit cannot be issued within 
13.32 	the 150-day goal, the commissioner must provide notice to the applicant with the 
13.33 	commissioner's notice that the application is complete and, upon request of the applicant, 
13.34 	provide the permit applicant with a schedule estimating when the agency will begin drafting 
14.1 	the permit and issue the public notice of the draft permit. This paragraph does not apply to 
14.2 	an application for a permit that is subject to a grant or loan agreement under chapter 446A.
14.3 	(e) When public notice of a draft individual tier 2 permit is required, the commissioner 
14.4 	must provide the applicant a draft permit for review by the applicant within 30 days after 
14.5 	determining the proposal conforms to all federal and state laws and rules, unless the permit 
14.6 	applicant and the commissioner mutually agree to a different date. The commissioner must 
14.7 	consider all comments submitted by the applicant before issuing the permit.

14.8 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 84.027, is amended by adding a subdivision to 
14.9 	read:
14.10 		Subd. 14c.Unadopted rules. The commissioner of natural resources must not enforce 
14.11 	or attempt to enforce an unadopted rule. For purposes of this subdivision, "unadopted rule" 
14.12 	means a guideline, bulletin, criterion, manual standard, interpretive statement, policy plan, 
14.13 	or similar pronouncement if the guideline, bulletin, criterion, manual standard, interpretive 
14.14 	statement, policy plan, or similar pronouncement has not been adopted according to the 
14.15 	rulemaking process provided under chapter 14. If an unadopted rule is challenged under 
14.16 	section 14.381, the commissioner must cease enforcement of the unadopted rule and 
14.17 	overcome a presumption that the unadopted rule must be adopted according to the rulemaking 
14.18 	process provided under chapter 14.

14.19 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 84.788, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
14.20 		Subd. 5.Report of ownership transfers; fee. (a) Application for transfer of ownership 
14.21 	of an off-highway motorcycle registered under this section must be made to the commissioner 
14.22 	within 15 days of the date of transfer.
14.23 	(b) An application for transfer must be executed by the registered current owner and the 
14.24 	purchaser using a bill of sale that includes the vehicle serial number.
14.25 	(c) The purchaser is subject to the penalties imposed by section 84.774 if the purchaser 
14.26 	fails to apply for transfer of ownership as provided under this subdivision.

14.27 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 84.82, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
14.28 		Subd. 2.Application, issuance, issuing fee. (a) Application for registration or 
14.29 	reregistration shall be made to the commissioner or an authorized deputy registrar of motor 
14.30 	vehicles in a format prescribed by the commissioner and shall state the legal name and 
14.31 	address of every owner of the snowmobile.
15.1 	(b) A person who purchases a snowmobile from a retail dealer shall make application 
15.2 	for registration to the dealer at the point of sale. The dealer shall issue a dealer temporary 
15.3 	21-day registration permit to each purchaser who applies to the dealer for registration. The 
15.4 	temporary permit must contain the dealer's identification number and phone number. Each 
15.5 	retail dealer shall submit completed registration and fees to the deputy registrar at least once 
15.6 	a week. No fee may be charged by a dealer to a purchaser for providing the temporary 
15.7 	permit.
15.8 	(c) Upon receipt of the application and the appropriate fee, the commissioner or deputy 
15.9 	registrar shall issue to the applicant, or provide to the dealer, an assigned registration number 
15.10 	or a commissioner or deputy registrar temporary 21-day permit. The registration number 
15.11 	must be printed on a registration decal issued by the commissioner or deputy registrar. Once 
15.12 	issued, the registration number decal must be affixed to the snowmobile in a clearly visible 
15.13 	and permanent manner for enforcement purposes as the commissioner of natural resources 
15.14 	shall prescribe according to subdivision 3b. A dealer subject to paragraph (b) shall provide 
15.15 	the registration materials or temporary permit to the purchaser within the temporary 21-day 
15.16 	permit period. The registration is not valid unless signed by at least one owner.
15.17 	(d) Each deputy registrar of motor vehicles acting pursuant to section 168.33 shall also 
15.18 	be a deputy registrar of snowmobiles. The commissioner of natural resources in agreement 
15.19 	with the commissioner of public safety may prescribe the accounting and procedural 
15.20 	requirements necessary to ensure efficient handling of registrations and registration fees. 
15.21 	Deputy registrars shall strictly comply with these accounting and procedural requirements.
15.22 	(e) In addition to other fees prescribed by law, an issuing fee of $4.50 is charged for 
15.23 	each snowmobile registration renewal, duplicate or replacement registration card, and 
15.24 	replacement decal, and an issuing fee of $7 is charged for each snowmobile registration and 
15.25 	registration transfer issued by:
15.26 	(1) a registrar or a deputy registrar and must be deposited in the manner provided in 
15.27 	section 168.33, subdivision 2; or
15.28 	(2) the commissioner and must be deposited in the state treasury and credited to the 
15.29 	snowmobile trails and enforcement account in the natural resources fund.

15.30 	Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 84.82, is amended by adding a subdivision to 
15.31 	read:
15.32 		Subd. 3b.Display of registration decal. (a) A person must not operate a snowmobile 
15.33 	in the state or allow another to operate the person's snowmobile in the state unless the 
16.1 	snowmobile has its unexpired registration decal affixed to each side of the snowmobile and 
16.2 	the decal is legible.
16.3 	(b) The registration decal must be affixed:
16.4 	(1) for snowmobiles made after June 30, 1972, in the area provided by the manufacturer 
16.5 	under section 84.821, subdivision 2; and
16.6 	(2) for all other snowmobiles, on each side of the cowling on the upper half of the 
16.7 	snowmobile.
16.8 	(c) When any previously affixed registration decal is destroyed or lost, a duplicate must 
16.9 	be affixed in the same manner as provided in paragraph (b).

16.10 	Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 84.821, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
16.11 		Subd. 2.Area for registration number. All snowmobiles made after June 30, 1972, 
16.12 	and sold in Minnesota, shall be designed and made to provide an area on which to affix the 
16.13 	registration number decal. This area shall be at a location and of dimensions prescribed by 
16.14 	rule of the commissioner. A clear area must be provided on each side of the cowling with 
16.15 	a minimum size of 3-1/2 square inches and at least 12 inches from the ground when the 
16.16 	machine is resting on a hard surface.

16.17 	Sec. 7. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 84.84, is amended to read:
16.18 	84.84 TRANSFER OR TERMINATION OF SNOWMOBILE OWNERSHIP.
16.19 	(a) Within 15 days after the transfer of ownership, or any part thereof, other than a 
16.20 	security interest, or the destruction or abandonment of any snowmobile, written notice of 
16.21 	the transfer or destruction or abandonment shall be given to the commissioner in such form 
16.22 	as the commissioner shall prescribe.
16.23 	(b) An application for transfer must be executed by the registered current owner and the 
16.24 	purchaser using a bill of sale that includes the vehicle serial number.
16.25 	(c) The purchaser is subject to the penalties imposed by section 84.88 if the purchaser 
16.26 	fails to apply for transfer of ownership as provided under this subdivision. Every owner or 
16.27 	part owner of a snowmobile shall, upon failure to give notice of destruction or abandonment, 
16.28 	be subject to the penalties imposed by section 84.88.

17.1 	Sec. 8. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 84.86, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
17.2 		Subdivision 1.Required rules, fees, and reports. (a) With a view of achieving maximum 
17.3 	use of snowmobiles consistent with protection of the environment the commissioner of 
17.4 	natural resources shall adopt rules in the manner provided by chapter 14, for the following 
17.5 	purposes:
17.6 	(1) registration of snowmobiles and display of registration numbers.;
17.7 	(2) use of snowmobiles insofar as game and fish resources are affected.;
17.8 	(3) use of snowmobiles on public lands and waters, or on grant-in-aid trails.;
17.9 	(4) uniform signs to be used by the state, counties, and cities, which are necessary or 
17.10 	desirable to control, direct, or regulate the operation and use of snowmobiles.;
17.11 	(5) specifications relating to snowmobile mufflers.; and
17.12 	(6) a comprehensive snowmobile information and safety education and training program, 
17.13 	including that includes but is not limited to the preparation and dissemination of preparing 
17.14 	and disseminating snowmobile information and safety advice to the public, the training of
17.15 	snowmobile operators, and the issuance of issuing snowmobile safety certificates to 
17.16 	snowmobile operators who successfully complete the snowmobile safety education and 
17.17 	training course.
17.18 	(b) For the purpose of administering such the program under paragraph (a), clause (6),
17.19 	and to defray expenses of training and certifying snowmobile operators, the commissioner 
17.20 	shall collect a fee from each person who receives the youth or adult training. The 
17.21 	commissioner shall collect a fee, to include a $1 issuing fee for licensing agents, for issuing 
17.22 	a duplicate snowmobile safety certificate. The commissioner shall establish both fees in a 
17.23 	manner that neither significantly overrecovers nor underrecovers costs, including overhead 
17.24 	costs, involved in providing the services. The fees are not subject to the rulemaking provisions 
17.25 	of chapter 14 and section 14.386 does not apply. The fees may be established by the 
17.26 	commissioner notwithstanding section 16A.1283. The fees, except for the issuing fee for 
17.27 	licensing agents under this subdivision, shall be deposited in the snowmobile trails and 
17.28 	enforcement account in the natural resources fund and the amount thereof, except for the 
17.29 	electronic licensing system commission established by the commissioner under section 
17.30 	84.027, subdivision 15, and issuing fees collected by the commissioner, is appropriated 
17.31 	annually to the Enforcement Division of the Department of Natural Resources for the 
17.32 	administration of such administering the programs. In addition to the fee established by the 
17.33 	commissioner, instructors may charge each person any fee paid by the instructor for the 
18.1 	person's online training course and up to the established fee amount for class materials and 
18.2 	expenses. The commissioner shall cooperate with private organizations and associations, 
18.3 	private and public corporations, and local governmental units in furtherance of the program 
18.4 	established under this paragraph (a), clause (6). School districts may cooperate with the 
18.5 	commissioner and volunteer instructors to provide space for the classroom portion of the 
18.6 	training. The commissioner shall consult with the commissioner of public safety in regard 
18.7 	to training program subject matter and performance testing that leads to the certification of 
18.8 	snowmobile operators.
18.9 	(7) (c) The operator of any snowmobile involved in an accident resulting in injury 
18.10 	requiring medical attention or hospitalization to or death of any person or total damage to 
18.11 	an extent of $500 or more, shall forward a written report of the accident to the commissioner 
18.12 	on such a form as prescribed by the commissioner shall prescribe. If the operator is killed 
18.13 	or is unable to file a report due to incapacitation, any peace officer investigating the accident 
18.14 	shall file the accident report within ten business days.

18.15 	Sec. 9. Minnesota Statutes 2021 Supplement, section 84.92, subdivision 8, is amended to 
18.16 	read:
18.17 		Subd. 8.All-terrain vehicle or vehicle. (a) "All-terrain vehicle" or "vehicle" means a 
18.18 	motorized vehicle with: (1) not less than three, but not more than six low pressure or 
18.19 	non-pneumatic tires; (2) a total dry weight of 2,0003,000 pounds or less; and (3) a total 
18.20 	width from outside of tire rim to outside of tire rim that is 65 inches or less. All-terrain 
18.21 	vehicle includes a class 1 all-terrain vehicle and class 2 all-terrain vehicle.
18.22 	(b) All-terrain vehicle does not include an electric-assisted bicycle as defined in section 
18.23 	169.011, subdivision 27, golf cart, mini-truck, dune buggy, or go-cart or a vehicle designed 
18.24 	and used specifically for lawn maintenance, agriculture, logging, or mining purposes.

18.25 	Sec. 10. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 84.922, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
18.26 		Subd. 4.Report of transfers. (a) Application for transfer of ownership must be made 
18.27 	to the commissioner within 15 days of the date of transfer.
18.28 	(b) An application for transfer must be executed by the registered current owner and the 
18.29 	purchaser using a bill of sale that includes the vehicle serial number.
18.30 	(c) The purchaser is subject to the penalties imposed by section 84.774 if the purchaser 
18.31 	fails to apply for transfer of ownership as provided under this subdivision.

19.1 	Sec. 11. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 85.015, subdivision 10, is amended to read:
19.2 		Subd. 10.Luce Line Trail, Hennepin, McLeod, and Meeker Counties. (a) The trail 
19.3 	shall originate at Gleason Lake in Plymouth Village, Hennepin County, and shall follow 
19.4 	the route of the Chicago Northwestern Railroad, and include a connection to Greenleaf Lake 
19.5 	State Recreation Area.
19.6 	(b) The trail shall be developed for multiuse wherever feasible. The department shall 
19.7 	cooperate in maintaining its integrity for modes of use consistent with local ordinances.
19.8 	(c) In establishing, developing, maintaining, and operating the trail, the commissioner 
19.9 	shall cooperate with local units of government and private individuals and groups. Before 
19.10 	acquiring any parcel of land for the trail, the commissioner of natural resources shall develop 
19.11 	a management program for the parcel and conduct a public hearing on the proposed 
19.12 	management program in the vicinity of the parcel to be acquired. The management program 
19.13 	of the commissioner shall include but not be limited to the following:
19.14 	(a) (1) fencing of portions of the trail where necessary to protect adjoining landowners; 
19.15 	and
19.16 	(b) the maintenance of (2) maintaining the trail in a litter free litter-free condition to the 
19.17 	extent practicable.
19.18 	(d) The commissioner shall not acquire any of the right-of-way of the Chicago 
19.19 	Northwestern Railway Company until the abandonment of the line described in this 
19.20 	subdivision has been approved by the Surface Transportation Board or the former Interstate 
19.21 	Commerce Commission. Compensation, in addition to the value of the land, shall include 
19.22 	improvements made by the railroad, including but not limited to, bridges, trestles, public 
19.23 	road crossings, or any portion thereof, it being the desire of the railroad that such 
19.24 	improvements be included in the conveyance. The fair market value of the land and 
19.25 	improvements shall be recommended by two independent appraisers mutually agreed upon 
19.26 	by the parties. The fair market value thus recommended shall be reviewed by a review 
19.27 	appraiser agreed to by the parties, and the fair market value thus determined, and supported 
19.28 	by appraisals, may be the purchase price. The commissioner may exchange lands with 
19.29 	landowners abutting the right-of-way described in this section to eliminate diagonally shaped 
19.30 	separate fields.

20.1 	Sec. 12. Minnesota Statutes 2021 Supplement, section 85.052, subdivision 6, is amended 
20.2 	to read:
20.3 		Subd. 6.State park reservation system. (a) The commissioner may, by written order, 
20.4 	develop reasonable reservation policies for campsites and other using camping, lodging, 
20.5 	and day-use facilities and for tours, educational programs, seminars, events, and rentals. 
20.6 	The policies are exempt from the rulemaking provisions under chapter 14, and section 
20.7 	14.386 does not apply.
20.8 	(b) The revenue collected from the state park reservation fee established under subdivision 
20.9 	5, including interest earned, shall must be deposited in the state park account in the natural 
20.10 	resources fund and is annually appropriated to the commissioner for the cost of operating 
20.11 	the state park reservation and point-of-sale system.

20.12 	Sec. 13. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 90.181, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
20.13 		Subd. 2.Deferred payments. (a) If the amount of the statement is not paid or payment 
20.14 	is not postmarked within 30 days of the statement date thereof, it shall bear, the amount 
20.15 	bears interest at the rate determined pursuant to section 16A.124, except that the purchaser 
20.16 	shall not be is not required to pay interest that totals $1 or less. If the amount is not paid 
20.17 	within 60 days, the commissioner shall place the account in the hands of the commissioner 
20.18 	of revenue according to chapter 16D, who shall proceed to collect the same amount due. 
20.19 	When deemed in the best interests of the state, the commissioner shall take possession of 
20.20 	the timber for which an amount is due wherever it may be found and sell the same timber
20.21 	informally or at public auction after giving reasonable notice.
20.22 	(b) The proceeds of the sale shall must be applied, first, to the payment of the expenses 
20.23 	of seizure and sale; and, second, to the payment of the amount due for the timber, with 
20.24 	interest; and. The surplus, if any, shall belong belongs to the state; and,. In case a sufficient 
20.25 	amount is not realized to pay these amounts in full, the balance shall must be collected by 
20.26 	the attorney general. Neither Payment of the amount, nor the recovery of judgment therefor
20.27 	for the amount, nor satisfaction of the judgment, nor the or seizure and sale of timber, shall
20.28 	does not:
20.29 	(1) release the sureties on any security deposit given pursuant to this chapter, or;
20.30 	(2) preclude the state from afterwards claiming that the timber was cut or removed 
20.31 	contrary to law and recovering damages for the trespass thereby committed,; or
20.32 	(3) preclude the state from prosecuting the offender criminally.

21.1 	Sec. 14. [93.70] ENSURING TIMELY ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF 
21.2 	METALLIC MINING PROJECTS.
21.3 		Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the terms defined in this 
21.4 	subdivision have the meanings given.
21.5 	(b) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of natural resources.
21.6 	(c) "Covered mining project" means a proposed metallic mineral mining project or a 
21.7 	modification to an existing metallic mining project for which an environmental assessment 
21.8 	worksheet or an environmental impact statement must be or is being prepared according to 
21.9 	chapter 116D.
21.10 	(d) "Submission date" means the date on which a project proposer of a covered mining 
21.11 	project submits the completed data portion of an environmental assessment worksheet to 
21.12 	the responsible governmental unit for environmental review under chapter 116D.
21.13 		Subd. 2.Environmental review goals. To ensure an environmental review process that 
21.14 	is both timely and environmentally responsible, the responsible governmental unit for a 
21.15 	covered mining project must attempt to ensure that all environmental reviews, permits, and 
21.16 	approvals, including those at the federal level to the extent practicable, are completed in 
21.17 	accordance with the following timelines:
21.18 	(1) when an environmental assessment worksheet is prepared for a project for which an 
21.19 	environmental impact statement is not required, the decision on the need for an environmental 
21.20 	impact statement must be made no later than 18 months after the environmental assessment 
21.21 	worksheet submission date; and
21.22 	(2) when an environmental impact statement is prepared for a project, the decision on 
21.23 	the adequacy of the final environmental impact statement must be made no later than three 
21.24 	years after the environmental assessment worksheet submission date.
21.25 		Subd. 3.Report. If a responsible governmental unit fails to meet a goal set forth in 
21.26 	subdivision 2, it must within five days report to the project proposer and to the chairs and 
21.27 	ranking minority members of the legislative committees and divisions with jurisdiction over 
21.28 	mining to explain the reason for the failure and must provide an estimate of the additional 
21.29 	time that will be required to determine whether an environmental impact statement is required 
21.30 	or whether the final environmental impact statement is adequate, as applicable.

22.1 	Sec. 15. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97A.015, subdivision 29, is amended to read:
22.2 		Subd. 29.Minnows. "Minnows" means: (1) members of the minnow family, Cyprinidae, 
22.3 	except carp and goldfish; (2) members of the mudminnow family, Umbridae; (3) members 
22.4 	of the sucker family, Catostomidae, not over 12 inches in length; (4) bullheads, ciscoes, 
22.5 	lake whitefish, goldeyes, and mooneyes, not over seven inches long; (5) leeches; and (6) 
22.6 	tadpole madtoms (willow cats) and stonecats.

22.7 	Sec. 16. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97A.015, subdivision 51, is amended to read:
22.8 		Subd. 51.Unloaded. "Unloaded" means, with reference to a firearm, without ammunition 
22.9 	in the barrels and magazine, if the magazine is in the firearm. A muzzle-loading firearm 
22.10 	with is unloaded if:
22.11 	(1) for a flintlock ignition is unloaded if, it does not have priming powder in a pan. A 
22.12 	muzzle-loading firearm with;
22.13 	(2) for a percussion ignition is unloaded if, it does not have a percussion cap on a nipple.;
22.14 	(3) for an electronic ignition system, the battery is removed and is disconnected from 
22.15 	the firearm; and
22.16 	(4) for an encapsulated powder charge ignition system, the primer and powder charge 
22.17 	are removed from the firearm.

22.18 	Sec. 17. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97A.126, as amended by Laws 2021, First 
22.19 	Special Session chapter 6, article 2, section 52, is amended to read:
22.20 	97A.126 WALK-IN ACCESS PROGRAM.
22.21 		Subdivision 1.Establishment. A walk-in access program is established to provide public 
22.22 	access to wildlife habitat on private land for hunting, bird-watching, nature photography, 
22.23 	and similar compatible uses, excluding trapping, as provided under this section. The 
22.24 	commissioner may enter into agreements with other units of government and landowners 
22.25 	to provide private land hunting access.
22.26 		Subd. 2.Use of enrolled lands. (a) From September 1 to May 31, a person must have 
22.27 	a walk-in access hunter validation in possession to hunt, photograph, and watch wildlife on 
22.28 	private lands, including agricultural lands, that are posted as being enrolled in the walk-in 
22.29 	access program.
23.1 	(b) Hunting, bird-watching, nature photography, and similar compatible uses on private 
23.2 	lands that are posted as enrolled in the walk-in access program is allowed from one-half 
23.3 	hour before sunrise to one-half hour after sunset.
23.4 	(c) Hunter Access on private lands that are posted as enrolled in the walk-in access 
23.5 	program is restricted to nonmotorized use, except by hunters persons with disabilities 
23.6 	operating motor vehicles on established trails or field roads who possess a valid permit to 
23.7 	shoot from a stationary vehicle under section 97B.055, subdivision 3 provide credible 
23.8 	assurance to the commissioner that the device or motor boat is used because of a disability.
23.9 	(d) The general provisions for use of wildlife management areas adopted under sections 
23.10 	86A.06 and 97A.137, relating to overnight use, alcoholic beverages, use of motorboats, 
23.11 	firearms and target shooting, hunting stands, abandonment of trash and property, destruction 
23.12 	or removal of property, introduction of plants or animals, and animal trespass, apply to 
23.13 	hunters on use of lands enrolled in the walk-in access program.
23.14 	(e) Any use of enrolled lands other than hunting according to use authorized under this 
23.15 	section is prohibited, including:
23.16 	(1) harvesting bait, including minnows, leeches, and other live bait;
23.17 	(2) training dogs or using dogs for activities other than hunting; and
23.18 	(3) constructing or maintaining any building, dock, fence, billboard, sign, hunting blind, 
23.19 	or other structure, unless constructed or maintained by the landowner.
23.20 		Subd. 3.Walk-in-access hunter validation; fee. The fee for a walk-in-access hunter
23.21 	validation is $3.

23.22 	Sec. 18. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97A.137, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
23.23 		Subd. 3.Use of motorized vehicles by disabled hunters people with disabilities. The 
23.24 	commissioner may issue provide an accommodation by issuing a special permit, without a 
23.25 	fee, authorizing a hunter person with a permanent physical disability to use a snowmobile, 
23.26 	highway-licensed vehicle, all-terrain vehicle,an other power-driven mobility device, as 
23.27 	defined under Code of Federal Regulations, title 28, section 35.104, or a motor boat in 
23.28 	wildlife management areas. To qualify for a permit under this subdivision, the disabled
23.29 	person must possess:
23.30 	(1) the required hunting licenses; and
24.1 	(2) a permit to shoot from a stationary vehicle under section 97B.055, subdivision 3.
24.2 	provide credible assurance to the commissioner that the device or motor boat is used because 
24.3 	of a disability.

24.4 	Sec. 19. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97A.137, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
24.5 		Subd. 5.Portable stands. (a) Prior to the Saturday on or nearest September 16, a portable 
24.6 	stand may be left overnight in a wildlife management area by a person with a valid bear 
24.7 	license who is hunting within 100 yards of a bear bait site that is legally tagged and registered 
24.8 	as prescribed under section 97B.425. Any person leaving a portable stand overnight under 
24.9 	this subdivision must affix a tag with: (1) the person's name and address; (2) the licensee's 
24.10 	driver's license number; or (3) the "MDNR#" license identification number issued to the 
24.11 	licensee. The tag must be affixed to the stand in a manner that it can be read from the ground.
24.12 	(b) From November 1 through December 31, a portable stand may be left overnight by 
24.13 	a person possessing a license to take deer in a wildlife management area located in whole 
24.14 	or in part north and west of a line described as follows:
24.15 	State Trunk Highway 1 from the west boundary of the state to State Trunk Highway 89; 
24.16 	then north along State Trunk Highway 89 to Fourtown; then north on County State-Aid 
24.17 	Highway 44, Beltrami County, to County Road 704, Beltrami County; then north on County 
24.18 	Road 704 to Dick's Parkway State Forest Road; then north on Dick's Parkway to County 
24.19 	State-Aid Highway 5, Roseau County; then north on County State-Aid Highway 5 to 
24.20 	Warroad; then north on State Trunk Highway 11 to State Trunk Highway 313; then north 
24.21 	on State Trunk Highway 313 to the north boundary of the state.
24.22 	A person leaving a portable stand overnight under this paragraph must affix a tag with: (1) 
24.23 	the person's name and address; (2) the licensee's driver's license number; or (3) the "MDNR#" 
24.24 	license identification number issued to the licensee. The tag must be affixed to the stand so 
24.25 	that it can be read from the ground and must be made of a material sufficient to withstand 
24.26 	weather conditions. A person leaving a portable stand overnight in a wildlife management 
24.27 	area under this paragraph may not leave more than two portable stands in any one wildlife 
24.28 	management area. Unoccupied portable stands left overnight under this paragraph may be 
24.29 	used by any member of the public. This paragraph expires December 31, 2019.

24.30 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective retroactively from July 1, 2019, and 
24.31 	Minnesota Statutes, section 97A.137, subdivision 5, paragraph (b), is revived and reenacted 
24.32 	as of that date.

25.1 	Sec. 20. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97A.405, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
25.2 		Subd. 5.Resident licenses. (a) To obtain a resident license, a resident an individual 21 
25.3 	years of age or older must be a resident and:
25.4 	(1) possess a current Minnesota driver's license or a valid application receipt for a driver's 
25.5 	license that is at least 60 days past the issuance date;
25.6 	(2) possess a current identification card issued by the commissioner of public safety or 
25.7 	a valid application receipt for an identification card that is at least 60 days past the issuance 
25.8 	date; or
25.9 	(3) present evidence showing proof of residency in cases when clause (1) or (2) would 
25.10 	violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, Public Law 103-141.; or
25.11 	(4) possess a Tribal identification card as provided in paragraph (b).
25.12 	(b) For purposes of this subdivision, "Tribal identification card" means an unexpired 
25.13 	identification card as provided under section 171.072, paragraphs (b) and (c). The Tribal 
25.14 	identification card:
25.15 	(1) must contain the enrolled Tribal member's Minnesota residence address; and
25.16 	(2) may be used to obtain a resident license under paragraph (a) only if the Tribal member 
25.17 	does not have a current driver's license or state identification card in any state.
25.18 	(c) A person must not have applied for, purchased, or accepted a resident hunting, fishing, 
25.19 	or trapping license issued by another state or foreign country within 60 days before applying 
25.20 	for a resident license under this section.

25.21 	Sec. 21. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97B.031, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
25.22 		Subdivision 1.Permissible firearms and ammunition; big game and wolves. A person 
25.23 	may take big game and wolves with a firearm only if:
25.24 	(1) the any rifle, shotgun, and or handgun used is a caliber of at least .22 inches and with
25.25 	has centerfire ignition;
25.26 	(2) the firearm is loaded only with single projectile ammunition;
25.27 	(3) a projectile used is a caliber of at least .22 inches and has a soft point or is an 
25.28 	expanding bullet type;
25.29 	(4) the any muzzleloader used is incapable of being has the projectile loaded only at the 
25.30 	breech muzzle;
26.1 	(5) the any smooth-bore muzzleloader used is a caliber of at least .45 inches; and
26.2 	(6) the any rifled muzzleloader used is a caliber of at least .40 inches.

26.3 	Sec. 22. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97B.031, is amended by adding a subdivision 
26.4 	to read:
26.5 		Subd. 7.Regular firearms deer season. During the regular firearms deer season, all 
26.6 	legal firearms may be used statewide.

26.7 	Sec. 23. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97B.071, is amended to read:
26.8 	97B.071 CLOTHING AND GROUND BLIND REQUIREMENTS; BLAZE 
26.9 	ORANGE OR BLAZE PINK.
26.10 	(a) Except as provided in rules adopted under paragraph (c) (d), a person may not hunt 
26.11 	or trap during the open season where deer may be taken by firearms under applicable laws 
26.12 	and ordinances, unless the visible portion of the person's cap and outer clothing above the 
26.13 	waist, excluding sleeves and gloves, is blaze orange or blaze pink. Blaze orange or blaze 
26.14 	pink includes a camouflage pattern of at least 50 percent blaze orange or blaze pink within 
26.15 	each foot square. This section does not apply to migratory-waterfowl hunters on waters of 
26.16 	this state or in a stationary shooting location or to trappers on waters of this state.
26.17 	(b) Except as provided in rules adopted under paragraph (d) and in addition to the 
26.18 	requirements under paragraph (a), during the open season where deer may be taken by 
26.19 	firearms under applicable laws and ordinances, a person in a fabric or synthetic ground 
26.20 	blind on public land must have:
26.21 	(1) a blaze orange or blaze pink safety covering on the top of the blind visible for 360 
26.22 	degrees around the blind; or
26.23 	(2) at least 144 square inches of blaze orange or blaze pink material on each side of the 
26.24 	blind.
26.25 	(b) (c) Except as provided in rules adopted under paragraph (c) (d), and in addition to 
26.26 	the requirement requirements in paragraph paragraphs (a) and (b), a person may not take 
26.27 	small game other than turkey, migratory birds, raccoons, and predators, except while trapping, 
26.28 	unless a visible portion of at least one article of the person's clothing above the waist is 
26.29 	blaze orange or blaze pink. This paragraph does not apply to a person when in a stationary 
26.30 	location while hunting deer by archery or when hunting small game by falconry.
27.1 	(c) (d) The commissioner may, by rule, prescribe an alternative color in cases where 
27.2 	paragraph (a) or (b) paragraphs (a) to (c) would violate the Religious Freedom Restoration 
27.3 	Act of 1993, Public Law 103-141.
27.4 	(d) (e) A violation of paragraph (b) shall (c) does not result in a penalty, but is punishable 
27.5 	only by a safety warning.

27.6 	Sec. 24. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97B.311, is amended to read:
27.7 	97B.311 DEER SEASONS AND RESTRICTIONS.
27.8 	(a) Except as provided under paragraph (c), the commissioner may, by rule, prescribe 
27.9 	restrictions and designate areas where deer may be taken, including hunter selection criteria 
27.10 	for special hunts established under section 97A.401, subdivision 4. The commissioner may, 
27.11 	by rule, prescribe the open seasons for deer within the following periods:
27.12 	(1) taking with firearms, other than muzzle-loading firearms, between November 1 and 
27.13 	December 15;
27.14 	(2) taking with muzzle-loading firearms between September 1 and December 31; and
27.15 	(3) taking by archery between September 1 and December 31.
27.16 	(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), the commissioner may establish special seasons 
27.17 	within designated areas at any time of year.
27.18 	(c) The commissioner may not impose an antler point restriction other than that imposed 
27.19 	under Minnesota Rules, part 6232.0200, subpart 6.

27.20 	Sec. 25. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97B.415, is amended to read:
27.21 	97B.415 TAKING BEAR TO PROTECT PROPERTY; SPECIAL PERMIT FOR 
27.22 	TAKING NUISANCE BEAR.
27.23 	(a) A person may take a bear at any time to protect the person's property. The person 
27.24 	must report the bear taken to a conservation officer within 48 hours. The bear may be 
27.25 	disposed of as prescribed by the commissioner.
27.26 	(b) The commissioner must issue a bear control special permit according to section 
27.27 	97A.401 for wildlife control operators to take nuisance bear by live trapping and relocating 
27.28 	the bear. When a bear is trapped and released, an enforcement officer or a wildlife manager 
27.29 	must approve the release location. The commissioner must provide specific training to 
27.30 	wildlife control operators who are issued a permit under this paragraph, including a refresher 
27.31 	course every five years. The commissioner may not charge a fee for the bear control special 
28.1 	permit or training. A wildlife control operator with a special permit issued under this 
28.2 	paragraph may use remote surveillance equipment to monitor live traps.

28.3 	Sec. 26. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97B.645, subdivision 9, is amended to read:
28.4 		Subd. 9.Open season. There shall be no open season for wolves until after the wolf is 
28.5 	delisted under the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973. After that time, the commissioner 
28.6 	may must annually prescribe one or more open seasons and for taking wolves by hunting, 
28.7 	trapping, and bow and arrow. The commissioner may also prescribe restrictions for taking 
28.8 	wolves but must provide opportunity for public comment.

28.9 	Sec. 27. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97B.668, is amended to read:
28.10 	97B.668 GAME BIRDS ANIMALS CAUSING DAMAGE.
28.11 		Subdivision 1.Game birds causing damage. Notwithstanding sections 97B.091 and 
28.12 	97B.805, subdivisions 1 and 2, a person or agent of that person on lands and nonpublic 
28.13 	waters owned or operated by the person may nonlethally scare, haze, chase, or harass game 
28.14 	birds that are causing property damage or to protect a disease risk at any time or place that 
28.15 	a hunting season for the game birds is not open. This section does not apply to public waters 
28.16 	as defined under section 103G.005, subdivision 15. This section does not apply to migratory 
28.17 	waterfowl on nests and other federally protected game birds on nests, except ducks and 
28.18 	geese on nests when a permit is obtained under section 97A.401.
28.19 		Subd. 2.Deer and elk causing damage. (a) Notwithstanding section 97B.091, a property 
28.20 	owner, the property owner's immediate family member, or an agent of the property owner 
28.21 	may nonlethally scare, haze, chase, or harass deer or elk that are causing damage to 
28.22 	agricultural crops propagated under generally accepted agricultural practices.
28.23 	(b) Paragraph (a) applies only:
28.24 	(1) in the immediate area of the crop damage; and
28.25 	(2) during the closed season for taking deer or elk.
28.26 	(c) Paragraph (a) does not allow:
28.27 	(1) using poisons;
28.28 	(2) using dogs;
28.29 	(3) conduct that drives a deer or elk to the point of exhaustion;
28.30 	(4) activities requiring a permit under section 97A.401; or
29.1 	(5) causing the death of a deer or elk or actions likely to cause the death of a deer or elk.
29.2 	(d) A property owner or the owner's agent must report the death of any deer or elk to 
29.3 	Division of Fish and Wildlife staff within 24 hours of the death if the death resulted from 
29.4 	actions taken under paragraph (a).

29.5 	Sec. 28. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97C.211, subdivision 2a, is amended to read:
29.6 		Subd. 2a.Acquiring fish. (a) A private fish hatchery may not obtain fish outside of the 
29.7 	state unless the fish or the source of the fish are approved by the commissioner. The 
29.8 	commissioner may apply more stringent requirements to fish or a source of fish from outside 
29.9 	the state than are applied to fish and sources of fish from within the state. The commissioner 
29.10 	must either approve or deny the acquisition within 30 days after receiving a written request 
29.11 	for approval. Minnows acquired must be processed and not released into public waters, 
29.12 	except as provided in section 97C.515, subdivision 4. A request may be for annual 
29.13 	acquisition.
29.14 	(b) If the commissioner denies approval, a written notice must be submitted to the 
29.15 	applicant stating the reasons for the denial and the commissioner must:
29.16 	(1) designate approved sources to obtain the desired fish or fish eggs; or
29.17 	(2) sell the fish or fish eggs from state fish hatcheries at fair market value.

29.18 	Sec. 29. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97C.315, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
29.19 		Subdivision 1.Lines. An angler may not use more than one line except:
29.20 	(1) two lines may be used to take fish through the ice; and
29.21 	(2) the commissioner may, by rule, authorize the use of two lines in areas designated by 
29.22 	the commissioner in Lake Superior.; and
29.23 	(3) two lines may be used in the Minnesota River downstream of the Granite Falls dam 
29.24 	and in the Mississippi River downstream of St. Anthony Falls.

29.25 	Sec. 30. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 97C.515, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
29.26 		Subd. 2.Permit for transportation importation. (a) A person may transport import
29.27 	live minnows through into the state with a permit from the commissioner. The permit must 
29.28 	state the name and address of the person, the number and species of minnows, the point of 
29.29 	entry into the state, the destination, and the route through the state. The permit is not valid 
30.1 	for more than 12 hours after it is issued. A person must not import minnows into the state 
30.2 	except as provided in this section.
30.3 	(b) Minnows transported under this subdivision must be in a tagged container. The tag 
30.4 	number must correspond with tag numbers listed on the minnow transportation permit.
30.5 	(c) The commissioner may require the person transporting minnow species found on 
30.6 	the official list of viral hemorrhagic septicemia susceptible species published by the United 
30.7 	States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services, to provide 
30.8 	health certification for viral hemorrhagic septicemia. The certification must disclose any 
30.9 	incidentally isolated replicating viruses, and must be dated within the 12 months preceding 
30.10 	transport.
30.11 	(b) Minnows must be certified as healthy according to standards of the World 
30.12 	Organisation for Animal Health or the Fish Health Section Blue Book of the American 
30.13 	Fisheries Society.
30.14 	(c) Minnows must be certified free of viral hemorrhagic septicemia, infectious 
30.15 	hematopoietic necrosis, infectious pancreatic necrosis, spring viremia of carp virus, fathead 
30.16 	minnow nidovirus, and Heterosporis within the past 12 months.
30.17 	(d) Minnows must originate from a biosecure facility that has tested negative for invasive 
30.18 	species in the past 12 months.
30.19 	(e) Only a person that holds a minnow dealer's license issued under section 97C.501, 
30.20 	subdivision 2, may obtain a permit to import minnows.
30.21 	(f) The following information must be available to the commissioner upon request for 
30.22 	each load of imported minnows:
30.23 	(1) the date minnows were imported;
30.24 	(2) the number of pounds or gallons imported;
30.25 	(3) the facility name from which the minnows originated; and
30.26 	(4) a fish health certificate for the minnows.
30.27 	(g) Minnows may be imported to feed hatchery fish if the requirements in paragraphs 
30.28 	(a) to (f) are met.

31.1 	Sec. 31. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 103G.201, is amended to read:
31.2 	103G.201 PUBLIC WATERS INVENTORY.
31.3 	(a) The commissioner shall must maintain a public waters inventory map of each county 
31.4 	that shows the waters of this state that are designated as public waters under the public 
31.5 	waters inventory and classification procedures prescribed under Laws 1979, chapter 199, 
31.6 	and shall must provide access to a copy of the maps. As county public waters inventory 
31.7 	maps are revised according to this section, the commissioner shall must send a notification 
31.8 	or a copy of the maps to the auditor of each affected county.
31.9 	(b) The commissioner is authorized to revise the map of public waters established under 
31.10 	Laws 1979, chapter 199, to reclassify those types 3, 4, and 5 wetlands previously identified 
31.11 	as public waters wetlands under Laws 1979, chapter 199, as public waters or as wetlands 
31.12 	under section 103G.005, subdivision 19. The commissioner may only reclassify public 
31.13 	waters wetlands as public waters if:
31.14 	(1) they are assigned a shoreland management classification by the commissioner under 
31.15 	sections 103F.201 to 103F.221;
31.16 	(2) they are classified as lacustrine wetlands or deepwater habitats according to 
31.17 	Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the United States (Cowardin, et al., 
31.18 	1979 edition); or
31.19 	(3) the state or federal government has become titleholder to any of the beds or shores 
31.20 	of the public waters wetlands, subsequent to the preparation of the public waters inventory 
31.21 	map filed with the auditor of the county, pursuant to paragraph (a), and the responsible state 
31.22 	or federal agency declares that the water is necessary for the purposes of the public 
31.23 	ownership.
31.24 	(c) The commissioner must provide notice of the a reclassification under paragraph (b) 
31.25 	or a revision under paragraph (e) to the local government unit, the county board, the 
31.26 	watershed district, if one exists for the area, and the soil and water conservation district. 
31.27 	Within 60 days of receiving notice from the commissioner, a party required to receive the 
31.28 	notice may provide a resolution stating objections to the reclassification or revision. If the 
31.29 	commissioner receives an objection from a party required to receive the notice, the 
31.30 	reclassification or revision is not effective. If the commissioner does not receive an objection 
31.31 	from a party required to receive the notice, the reclassification of a wetland under paragraph 
31.32 	(b) or revision under paragraph (e) is effective 60 days after the notice is received by all of 
31.33 	the parties.
32.1 	(d) The commissioner shall must give priority to the reclassification of public waters 
32.2 	wetlands that are or have the potential to be affected by public works projects.
32.3 	(e) The commissioner may revise the public waters inventory map of each county:
32.4 	(1) to reflect the changes authorized in paragraph (b); and
32.5 	(2) as needed, to:
32.6 	(i) correct errors in the original inventory;
32.7 	(ii) add or subtract trout stream tributaries within sections that contain a designated trout 
32.8 	stream following written notice to the landowner;
32.9 	(iii) add depleted quarries, and sand and gravel pits, when the body of water exceeds 50 
32.10 	acres and the shoreland has been zoned for residential development; and
32.11 	(iv) add or subtract public waters that have been created or eliminated as a requirement 
32.12 	of a permit authorized by the commissioner under section 103G.245.

32.13 	Sec. 32. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 103G.211, is amended to read:
32.14 	103G.211 DRAINING PUBLIC WATERS PROHIBITED WITHOUT 
32.15 	REPLACEMENT.
32.16 	(a) Except as provided in sections 103G.221 to 103G.235, public waters may not be 
32.17 	drained, and a permit authorizing drainage of public waters may not be issued, unless the 
32.18 	public waters to be drained are replaced by public waters that will have equal or greater 
32.19 	public value.
32.20 	(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the commissioner from issuing 
32.21 	or amending a water-use permit for appropriation from groundwater where:
32.22 	(1) the application is for a new groundwater well or to increase appropriation amounts 
32.23 	under an existing permit;
32.24 	(2) the applicant is a municipality wholly or partially located within a five-mile radius 
32.25 	of White Bear Lake; and
32.26 	(3) the amount of water to be appropriated under the proposal is consistent with the 
32.27 	amount anticipated to be needed by the applicant each year according to a water supply 
32.28 	plan approved by the commissioner under section 103G.291 before 2021.
32.29 	(c) Paragraph (b) and this paragraph expire January 1, 2041.

33.1 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment and 
33.2 	applies to applications for new or modified permits filed on or after that date.

33.3 	Sec. 33. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 103G.223, is amended to read:
33.4 	103G.223 CALCAREOUS FENS.
33.5 	(a) Calcareous fens, as identified by the commissioner by written order published in the 
33.6 	State Register, may not be filled, drained, or otherwise degraded, wholly or partially, by 
33.7 	any activity, unless the commissioner, under an approved management plan, decides some 
33.8 	alteration is necessary or as provided in paragraph (b). Identifications made by the 
33.9 	commissioner are not subject to the rulemaking provisions of chapter 14 and section 14.386 
33.10 	does not apply.
33.11 	(b) The commissioner may allow water appropriations that result in temporary reductions 
33.12 	in groundwater resources on a seasonal basis under an approved calcareous fen management 
33.13 	plan.
33.14 	(c) If the commissioner determines that a water appropriation permit cannot be issued 
33.15 	or renewed because of this section, the commissioner must, within one year of the date of 
33.16 	denial and at no cost to the applicant, provide the applicant with a groundwater and surface 
33.17 	water hydrologic evaluation that demonstrates by a preponderance of the evidence the basis 
33.18 	for that conclusion.
33.19 	(d) An applicant whose permit is denied under this section may file a written request 
33.20 	with the commissioner to designate a mutually agreed upon third-party expert to review the 
33.21 	evaluation provided under paragraph (c) at no cost to the applicant and to make 
33.22 	recommendations to the commissioner about whether the permit should be issued. The third 
33.23 	party expert must agree to provide the commissioner and applicant with the expert's 
33.24 	recommendations within 90 days of agreeing to review the evaluation.
33.25 	(e) A permit applicant may file for a contested case hearing under chapter 14 within 30 
33.26 	days of the later of the following:
33.27 	(1) the date by which the hydrologic evaluation was required to have been provided to 
33.28 	the applicant under paragraph (c);
33.29 	(2) receiving the recommendations of the third party who is reviewing the evaluation 
33.30 	under paragraph (d); or
33.31 	(3) determining that no mutually agreed upon third-party expert can be found.
34.1 	(f) Any permit applicant who has had a water appropriation permit previously denied 
34.2 	under this section may resubmit a permit application under this section and is entitled to all 
34.3 	rights and reviews available under this section.

34.4 	Sec. 34. Minnesota Statutes 2021 Supplement, section 103G.271, subdivision 4a, is 
34.5 	amended to read:
34.6 		Subd. 4a.Mt. Simon-Hinckley aquifer.  The commissioner may not issue new water-use 
34.7 	permits that will appropriate water from the Mt. Simon-Hinckley aquifer unless:
34.8 	(1) the appropriation is for potable water use, there are no feasible or practical alternatives 
34.9 	to this source, and a water conservation plan is incorporated with the permit; or
34.10 	(2) the appropriation is for less than 4,000,000 gallons per year and is to facilitate the 
34.11 	growth of trees.

34.12 	Sec. 35. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 103G.271, subdivision 7, is amended to read:
34.13 		Subd. 7.Transferring permit. (a) A water-use permit may be transferred to a successive 
34.14 	owner of real property if the permittee conveys the real property where the source of water 
34.15 	is located. The new owner must notify the commissioner immediately after the conveyance 
34.16 	and request transfer of the permit. The commissioner must not deny the transfer of a permit 
34.17 	if the permittee is in compliance with all permit conditions and the permit meets the 
34.18 	requirements of sections 103G.255 to 103G.301.
34.19 	(b) When transferring a permit, the commissioner must not require additional conditions 
34.20 	on the permit, reduce the appropriation, reduce the term, or require any testing.

34.21 	Sec. 36. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 103G.271, is amended by adding a subdivision 
34.22 	to read:
34.23 		Subd. 8.Management plans; effect on land values. Before a management plan for 
34.24 	appropriating water is prepared, the commissioner must provide estimates of the impact of 
34.25 	any new restriction or policy on land values in the affected area. Strategies to address adverse 
34.26 	impacts to land values must be included in the plan.

35.1 	Sec. 37. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 103G.285, is amended by adding a subdivision 
35.2 	to read:
35.3 		Subd. 7.Application. (a) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the 
35.4 	commissioner from issuing or amending a water-use permit for appropriation from 
35.5 	groundwater where:
35.6 	(1) the application is for a new groundwater well or to increase appropriation amounts 
35.7 	under an existing permit;
35.8 	(2) the applicant is a municipality wholly or partially located within a five-mile radius 
35.9 	of White Bear Lake; and
35.10 	(3) the amount of water to be appropriated under the proposal is consistent with the 
35.11 	amount anticipated to be needed by the applicant each year according to a water supply 
35.12 	plan approved by the commissioner under section 103G.291 before 2021.
35.13 	(b) This subdivision expires January 1, 2041.

35.14 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment and 
35.15 	applies to applications for new or modified permits filed on or after that date.

35.16 	Sec. 38. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 103G.287, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
35.17 		Subd. 4.Groundwater management areas. (a) The commissioner may designate 
35.18 	groundwater management areas and limit total annual water appropriations and uses within 
35.19 	a designated area to ensure sustainable use of groundwater that protects ecosystems, water 
35.20 	quality, and the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Water appropriations 
35.21 	and uses within a designated management area must be consistent with a groundwater 
35.22 	management area plan approved by the commissioner that addresses water conservation 
35.23 	requirements and water allocation priorities established in section 103G.261. During 
35.24 	development of a groundwater management area plan, the commissioner and employees 
35.25 	and agents of the department may disseminate information related to the timing, location, 
35.26 	and agendas of meetings related to the plan, but must otherwise limit public information 
35.27 	related to the groundwater management area plan to direct factual responses to public and 
35.28 	media inquiries. At least 30 days prior to implementing or modifying a groundwater 
35.29 	management area plan under this subdivision, the commissioner shall consult with the 
35.30 	advisory team established in paragraph (c).
35.31 	(b) Notwithstanding section 103G.271, subdivision 1, paragraph (b), and Minnesota 
35.32 	Rules, within designated groundwater management areas, the commissioner may require 
35.33 	general permits as specified in section 103G.271, subdivision 1, paragraph (c), for water 
36.1 	users using less than 10,000 gallons per day or 1,000,000 gallons per year and water suppliers 
36.2 	serving less than 25 persons for domestic purposes. The commissioner may waive the 
36.3 	requirements under section 103G.281 for general permits issued under this paragraph, and 
36.4 	the fee specified in section 103G.301, subdivision 2, paragraph (c), does not apply to general 
36.5 	permits issued under this paragraph.
36.6 	(c) When designating a groundwater management area, the commissioner shall assemble 
36.7 	an advisory team to assist in developing a groundwater management area plan for the area. 
36.8 	The advisory team members shall be selected from public and private entities that have an 
36.9 	interest in the water resources affected by the groundwater management area. A majority 
36.10 	of the advisory team members shall be public and private entities that currently hold water-use 
36.11 	permits for water appropriations from the affected water resources. The commissioner shall 
36.12 	consult with the League of Minnesota Cities, the Association of Minnesota Counties, the 
36.13 	Minnesota Association of Watershed Districts, and the Minnesota Association of Townships 
36.14 	in appointing the local government representatives to the advisory team. The advisory team 
36.15 	may also include representatives from the University of Minnesota, the Minnesota State 
36.16 	Colleges and Universities, other institutions of higher learning in Minnesota, political 
36.17 	subdivisions with jurisdiction over water issues, nonprofits with expertise in water, and 
36.18 	federal agencies.
36.19 	(d) Before designating a groundwater management area, the commissioner must provide 
36.20 	estimates of the impact of any new restriction or policy on land values in the affected area. 
36.21 	Strategies to address adverse impacts to land values must be included in any plan.

36.22 	Sec. 39. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 103G.287, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
36.23 		Subd. 5.Sustainability standard. (a) The commissioner may issue water-use permits 
36.24 	for appropriation from groundwater only if the commissioner determines that the groundwater 
36.25 	use is sustainable to supply the needs of future generations and the proposed use will not 
36.26 	harm ecosystems, degrade water, or reduce water levels beyond the reach of public water 
36.27 	supply and private domestic wells constructed according to Minnesota Rules, chapter 4725.
36.28 	(b) For the purposes of this subdivision and subdivision 4, "sustainable" means a change 
36.29 	in hydrologic regime of 20 percent or less relative to the August median stream flow.

37.1 	Sec. 40. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 103G.287, is amended by adding a subdivision 
37.2 	to read:
37.3 		Subd. 6.Application. (a) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the 
37.4 	commissioner from issuing or amending a water-use permit for appropriation from 
37.5 	groundwater where:
37.6 	(1) the application is for a new groundwater well or to increase appropriation amounts 
37.7 	under an existing permit;
37.8 	(2) the applicant is a municipality wholly or partially located within a five-mile radius 
37.9 	of White Bear Lake; and
37.10 	(3) the amount of water to be appropriated under the proposal is consistent with the 
37.11 	amount anticipated to be needed by the applicant each year according to a water supply 
37.12 	plan approved by the commissioner under section 103G.291 before 2021.
37.13 	(b) This subdivision expires January 1, 2041.

37.14 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment and 
37.15 	applies to applications for new or modified permits filed on or after that date.

37.16 	Sec. 41. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 103G.287, is amended by adding a subdivision 
37.17 	to read:
37.18 		Subd. 7.Issuance of certain permits. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
37.19 	the commissioner must issue a water-use permit for appropriation from groundwater that 
37.20 	meets the criteria of subdivision 6. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to prohibit 
37.21 	the commissioner from imposing conditions on the permit so long as the conditions do not 
37.22 	prevent the applicant from appropriating the amount of groundwater applied for.
37.23 	(b) This subdivision expires January 1, 2041.

37.24 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment and 
37.25 	applies to applications for new or modified permits filed on or after that date.

37.26 	Sec. 42. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 103G.289, is amended to read:
37.27 	103G.289 WELL INTERFERENCE; WELL SEALING VALIDATION; 
37.28 	CONTESTED CASE.
37.29 	(a) The commissioner shall not validate a claim for well interference claim if the affected 
37.30 	well has been sealed prior to the completion of the commissioner's investigation of the 
38.1 	complaint. If the well is sealed prior to completion of the investigation, the commissioner 
38.2 	must dismiss the complaint.
38.3 	(b) When validating a claim for well interference, the commissioner must take into 
38.4 	account the condition of the affected well.
38.5 	(c) Within 30 days after the commissioner's decision on a claim for well interference, a 
38.6 	party ordered by the commissioner to contribute to an affected well owner may petition for 
38.7 	a contested case hearing under sections 14.57 to 14.62. The commissioner must grant the 
38.8 	petitioner a contested case hearing on the commissioner's decision.

38.9 	Sec. 43. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 115.03, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
38.10 		Subdivision 1.Generally. (a) The agency is hereby given and charged with the following 
38.11 	powers and duties:
38.12 	(a) (1) to administer and enforce all laws relating to the pollution of any of the waters 
38.13 	of the state;
38.14 	(b) (2) to investigate the extent, character, and effect of the pollution of the waters of 
38.15 	this state and to gather data and information necessary or desirable in the administration or 
38.16 	enforcement of pollution laws, and to make such classification of the waters of the state as 
38.17 	it may deem advisable;
38.18 	(c) (3) to establish and alter such reasonable pollution standards for any waters of the 
38.19 	state in relation to the public use to which they are or may be put as it shall must deem 
38.20 	necessary for the purposes of this chapter and, with respect to the pollution of waters of the 
38.21 	state, chapter 116;
38.22 	(d) (4) to encourage waste treatment, including advanced waste treatment, instead of 
38.23 	stream low-flow augmentation for dilution purposes to control and prevent pollution;
38.24 	(e) (5) to adopt, issue, reissue, modify, deny, or revoke, enter into or enforce reasonable 
38.25 	orders, permits, variances, standards, rules, schedules of compliance, and stipulation 
38.26 	agreements, under such conditions as it may prescribe, in order to prevent, control or abate 
38.27 	water pollution, or for the installation or operation of disposal systems or parts thereof, or 
38.28 	for other equipment and facilities:
38.29 	(1) (i) requiring the discontinuance of the discharge of sewage, industrial waste or other 
38.30 	wastes into any waters of the state resulting in pollution in excess of the applicable pollution 
38.31 	standard established under this chapter;
39.1 	(2) (ii) prohibiting or directing the abatement of any discharge of sewage, industrial 
39.2 	waste, or other wastes, into any waters of the state or the deposit thereof or the discharge 
39.3 	into any municipal disposal system where the same is likely to get into any waters of the 
39.4 	state in violation of this chapter and, with respect to the pollution of waters of the state, 
39.5 	chapter 116, or standards or rules promulgated or permits issued pursuant thereto, and 
39.6 	specifying the schedule of compliance within which such prohibition or abatement must be 
39.7 	accomplished;
39.8 	(3) (iii) prohibiting the storage of any liquid or solid substance or other pollutant in a 
39.9 	manner which does not reasonably assure proper retention against entry into any waters of 
39.10 	the state that would be likely to pollute any waters of the state;
39.11 	(4) (iv) requiring the construction, installation, maintenance, and operation by any person 
39.12 	of any disposal system or any part thereof, or other equipment and facilities, or the 
39.13 	reconstruction, alteration, or enlargement of its existing disposal system or any part thereof, 
39.14 	or the adoption of other remedial measures to prevent, control or abate any discharge or 
39.15 	deposit of sewage, industrial waste or other wastes by any person;
39.16 	(5) (v) establishing, and from time to time revising, standards of performance for new 
39.17 	sources taking into consideration, among other things, classes, types, sizes, and categories 
39.18 	of sources, processes, pollution control technology, cost of achieving such effluent reduction, 
39.19 	and any nonwater quality environmental impact and energy requirements. Said standards 
39.20 	of performance for new sources shall must encompass those standards for the control of the 
39.21 	discharge of pollutants which reflect the greatest degree of effluent reduction which the 
39.22 	agency determines to be achievable through application of the best available demonstrated 
39.23 	control technology, processes, operating methods, or other alternatives, including, where 
39.24 	practicable, a standard permitting no discharge of pollutants. New sources shall must
39.25 	encompass buildings, structures, facilities, or installations from which there is or may be 
39.26 	the discharge of pollutants, the construction of which is commenced after the publication 
39.27 	by the agency of proposed rules prescribing a standard of performance which will be 
39.28 	applicable to such source. Notwithstanding any other provision of the law of this state, any 
39.29 	point source the construction of which is commenced after May 20, 1973, and which is so 
39.30 	constructed as to meet all applicable standards of performance for new sources shall must, 
39.31 	consistent with and subject to the provisions of section 306(d) of the Amendments of 1972 
39.32 	to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, not be subject to any more stringent standard 
39.33 	of performance for new sources during a ten-year period beginning on the date of completion 
39.34 	of such construction or during the period of depreciation or amortization of such facility 
39.35 	for the purposes of section 167 or 169, or both, of the Federal Internal Revenue Code of 
40.1 	1954, whichever period ends first. Construction shall must encompass any placement, 
40.2 	assembly, or installation of facilities or equipment, including contractual obligations to 
40.3 	purchase such facilities or equipment, at the premises where such equipment will be used, 
40.4 	including preparation work at such premises;
40.5 	(6) (vi) establishing and revising pretreatment standards to prevent or abate the discharge 
40.6 	of any pollutant into any publicly owned disposal system, which pollutant interferes with, 
40.7 	passes through, or otherwise is incompatible with such disposal system;
40.8 	(7) (vii) requiring the owner or operator of any disposal system or any point source to 
40.9 	establish and maintain such records, make such reports, install, use, and maintain such 
40.10 	monitoring equipment or methods, including where appropriate biological monitoring 
40.11 	methods, sample such effluents in accordance with such methods, at such locations, at such 
40.12 	intervals, and in such a manner as the agency shall must prescribe, and providing such other 
40.13 	information as the agency may reasonably require;
40.14 	(8) (viii) notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, and with respect to the 
40.15 	pollution of waters of the state, chapter 116, requiring the achievement of more stringent 
40.16 	limitations than otherwise imposed by effluent limitations in order to meet any applicable 
40.17 	water quality standard by establishing new effluent limitations, based upon section 115.01, 
40.18 	subdivision 13, clause (b), including alternative effluent control strategies for any point 
40.19 	source or group of point sources to insure the integrity of water quality classifications, 
40.20 	whenever the agency determines that discharges of pollutants from such point source or 
40.21 	sources, with the application of effluent limitations required to comply with any standard 
40.22 	of best available technology, would interfere with the attainment or maintenance of the 
40.23 	water quality classification in a specific portion of the waters of the state. Prior to 
40.24 	establishment of any such effluent limitation, the agency shall must hold a public hearing 
40.25 	to determine the relationship of the economic and social costs of achieving such limitation 
40.26 	or limitations, including any economic or social dislocation in the affected community or 
40.27 	communities, to the social and economic benefits to be obtained and to determine whether 
40.28 	or not such effluent limitation can be implemented with available technology or other 
40.29 	alternative control strategies. If a person affected by such limitation demonstrates at such 
40.30 	hearing that, whether or not such technology or other alternative control strategies are 
40.31 	available, there is no reasonable relationship between the economic and social costs and 
40.32 	the benefits to be obtained, such limitation shall must not become effective and shall must
40.33 	be adjusted as it applies to such person;
40.34 	(9) (ix) modifying, in its discretion, any requirement or limitation based upon best 
40.35 	available technology with respect to any point source for which a permit application is filed 
41.1 	after July 1, 1977, upon a showing by the owner or operator of such point source satisfactory 
41.2 	to the agency that such modified requirements will represent the maximum use of technology 
41.3 	within the economic capability of the owner or operator and will result in reasonable further 
41.4 	progress toward the elimination of the discharge of pollutants; and
41.5 	(10) (x) requiring that applicants for wastewater discharge permits evaluate in their 
41.6 	applications the potential reuses of the discharged wastewater;
41.7 	(f) (6) to require to be submitted and to approve plans and specifications for disposal 
41.8 	systems or point sources, or any part thereof and to inspect the construction thereof for 
41.9 	compliance with the approved plans and specifications thereof;
41.10 	(g) (7) to prescribe and alter rules, not inconsistent with law, for the conduct of the 
41.11 	agency and other matters within the scope of the powers granted to and imposed upon it by 
41.12 	this chapter and, with respect to pollution of waters of the state, in chapter 116, provided 
41.13 	that every rule affecting any other department or agency of the state or any person other 
41.14 	than a member or employee of the agency shall must be filed with the secretary of state;
41.15 	(h) (8) to conduct such investigations, issue such notices, public and otherwise, and hold 
41.16 	such hearings as are necessary or which it may deem advisable for the discharge of its duties 
41.17 	under this chapter and, with respect to the pollution of waters of the state, under chapter 
41.18 	116, including, but not limited to, the issuance of permits, and to authorize any member, 
41.19 	employee, or agent appointed by it to conduct such investigations or, issue such notices and 
41.20 	hold such hearings;
41.21 	(i) (9) for the purpose of water pollution control planning by the state and pursuant to 
41.22 	the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, to establish and revise planning areas, 
41.23 	adopt plans and programs and continuing planning processes, including, but not limited to, 
41.24 	basin plans and areawide waste treatment management plans, and to provide for the 
41.25 	implementation of any such plans by means of, including, but not limited to, standards, plan 
41.26 	elements, procedures for revision, intergovernmental cooperation, residual treatment process 
41.27 	waste controls, and needs inventory and ranking for construction of disposal systems;
41.28 	(j) (10) to train water pollution control personnel, and charge such fees therefor as are
41.29 	for the training as necessary to cover the agency's costs. The fees under this clause are 
41.30 	subject to legislative approval under section 16A.1283. All such fees received shall must
41.31 	be paid into the state treasury and credited to the Pollution Control Agency training account;
41.32 	(k) (11) to impose as additional conditions in permits to publicly owned disposal systems 
41.33 	appropriate measures to insure compliance by industrial and other users with any pretreatment 
41.34 	standard, including, but not limited to, those related to toxic pollutants, and any system of 
42.1 	user charges ratably as is hereby required under state law or said Federal Water Pollution 
42.2 	Control Act, as amended, or any regulations or guidelines promulgated thereunder;
42.3 	(l) (12) to set a period not to exceed five years for the duration of any national pollutant 
42.4 	discharge elimination system permit or not to exceed ten years for any permit issued as a 
42.5 	state disposal system permit only;
42.6 	(m) (13) to require each governmental subdivision identified as a permittee for a 
42.7 	wastewater treatment works to evaluate in every odd-numbered year the condition of its 
42.8 	existing system and identify future capital improvements that will be needed to attain or 
42.9 	maintain compliance with a national pollutant discharge elimination system or state disposal 
42.10 	system permit; and
42.11 	(n) (14) to train subsurface sewage treatment system personnel, including persons who 
42.12 	design, construct, install, inspect, service, and operate subsurface sewage treatment systems, 
42.13 	and charge fees for the training as necessary to pay the agency's costs. The fees under this 
42.14 	clause are subject to legislative approval under section 16A.1283. All fees received must 
42.15 	be paid into the state treasury and credited to the agency's training account. Money in the 
42.16 	account is appropriated to the agency to pay expenses related to training.
42.17 	(b) The information required in paragraph (a), clause (m) (13), must be submitted in 
42.18 	every odd-numbered year to the commissioner on a form provided by the commissioner. 
42.19 	The commissioner shall must provide technical assistance if requested by the governmental 
42.20 	subdivision.
42.21 	(c) The powers and duties given the agency in this subdivision also apply to permits 
42.22 	issued under chapter 114C.

42.23 	Sec. 44. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 115.455, is amended to read:
42.24 	115.455 EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS; COMPLIANCE.
42.25 	To the extent allowable under federal law, for a municipality that constructs a publicly 
42.26 	owned treatment works or for an industrial national pollutant discharge elimination system 
42.27 	and state disposal system permit holder that constructs a treatment works to comply with a 
42.28 	new or modified effluent limitation, compliance with any new or modified effluent limitation 
42.29 	adopted after construction begins that would require additional capital investment is required 
42.30 	no sooner than 16 years after the date the facility begins operating.

43.1 	Sec. 45. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 115.55, is amended by adding a subdivision to 
43.2 	read:
43.3 		Subd. 3a.Repaired drainage holes. A precast reinforced concrete tank that has one or 
43.4 	more openings in the exterior walls or tank bottom below the tank liquid level meets 
43.5 	minimum standards and criteria for subsurface sewage treatment systems if:
43.6 	(1) the openings have been repaired or sealed; and
43.7 	(2) all other requirements of the rules adopted under subdivision 3 are met.

43.8 	Sec. 46. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 115.77, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
43.9 		Subdivision 1.Fees. The agency shall must collect fees in amounts necessary, but no 
43.10 	greater than the amounts necessary, to cover the reasonable costs of reviewing applications 
43.11 	and issuing certifications. The fees under this subdivision are subject to legislative approval 
43.12 	under section 16A.1283.

43.13 	Sec. 47. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 115.84, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
43.14 		Subd. 2.Rules. The agency may adopt rules to govern certification of laboratories 
43.15 	according to this section. Notwithstanding section 16A.1283, the agency may adopt rules 
43.16 	establishing fees.

43.17 	Sec. 48. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 115.84, subdivision 3, is amended to read:
43.18 		Subd. 3.Fees. (a) Until the agency adopts a rule establishing fees for certification, the 
43.19 	agency shall must collect fees from laboratories registering with the agency, but not 
43.20 	accredited by the commissioner of health under sections 144.97 to 144.99, in amounts 
43.21 	necessary to cover the reasonable costs of the certification program, including reviewing 
43.22 	applications, issuing certifications, and conducting audits and compliance assistance. The 
43.23 	fees under this paragraph are subject to legislative approval under section 16A.1283.
43.24 	(b) Fees under this section must be based on the number, type, and complexity of 
43.25 	analytical methods that laboratories are certified to perform.
43.26 	(c) Revenue from fees charged by the agency for certification shall must be credited to 
43.27 	the environmental fund.

44.1 	Sec. 49. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 115A.03, is amended by adding a subdivision 
44.2 	to read:
44.3 		Subd. 3b.Chemical plastic recycling. "Chemical plastic recycling" means a 
44.4 	manufacturing process for converting post-use polymers into products, such as monomers, 
44.5 	oligomers, plastics, basic and unfinished chemicals, and other raw materials. Chemical 
44.6 	plastic recycling is not processing, treatment, incineration, disposal, or waste management, 
44.7 	as those terms are defined or used pursuant to chapters 115, 115A, and 116.

44.8 	Sec. 50. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 115A.03, is amended by adding a subdivision 
44.9 	to read:
44.10 		Subd. 3c.Chemical plastic recycling facility. "Chemical plastic recycling facility" 
44.11 	means a manufacturing facility that receives, stores, and converts post-use polymers it 
44.12 	receives using chemical plastic recycling. A chemical plastic recycling facility is not a 
44.13 	disposal facility, resource recovery facility, solid waste facility, or waste facility as those 
44.14 	terms are defined and regulated pursuant to chapters 115, 115A, and 116.

44.15 	Sec. 51. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 115A.03, is amended by adding a subdivision 
44.16 	to read:
44.17 		Subd. 24c.Post-use polymers. "Post-use polymers" means plastic that:
44.18 	(1) is derived from any industrial, commercial, agricultural, or domestic activities;
44.19 	(2) is used as feedstock for chemical plastic recycling;
44.20 	(3) is processed at a chemical plastic recycling facility or held at a chemical plastic 
44.21 	recycling facility before processing;
44.22 	(4) is not stored at any one location for more than three years without being utilized for 
44.23 	chemical plastic recycling; and
44.24 	(5) has been sorted from solid waste and regulated waste but may contain residual 
44.25 	amounts of solid waste such as organic materials and individual contaminants or impurities, 
44.26 	such as paper labels and metal rings.

44.27 	Sec. 52. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 115A.03, subdivision 35, is amended to read:
44.28 		Subd. 35.Waste facility. "Waste facility" means all property, real or personal, including 
44.29 	negative and positive easements and water and air rights, which is or may be needed or 
44.30 	useful for the processing or disposal of waste, except property for the collection of the waste 
44.31 	and property used primarily for the manufacture of scrap metal or, paper, or post-use 
45.1 	polymers. Waste facility includes but is not limited to transfer stations, processing facilities, 
45.2 	and disposal sites and facilities.

45.3 	Sec. 53. [115A.143] MATTRESS RECYCLING.
45.4 		Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the terms in this subdivision 
45.5 	have the meanings given.
45.6 	(b) "Brand" means a name, symbol, word, or mark that attributes a mattress to the 
45.7 	producer of the mattress.
45.8 	(c) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
45.9 	(d) "Consumer" means an owner of a mattress, including a person, business, corporation, 
45.10 	limited partnership, nonprofit organization, or governmental entity, and including the ultimate 
45.11 	purchaser, owner, or lessee of a mattress. Consumer does not include a government 
45.12 	organization or other party that obtains one or more discarded mattresses in the course of 
45.13 	collecting used mattresses for recycling for purposes of this chapter, or through the ordinary 
45.14 	collection and handling of municipal solid waste.
45.15 	(e) "Covered entity" means a commercial, institutional, governmental, or industrial 
45.16 	generator of mattresses that were used and discarded in the state, such as a health care 
45.17 	facility, educational facility, military base, or commercial or nonprofit lodging establishment. 
45.18 	Covered entity does not include a renovator, refurbisher, or person that only transports a 
45.19 	discarded mattress. Covered entities may engage in mattress collection or mattress drop-off 
45.20 	activities for mattresses that will be managed in the mattress stewardship program.
45.21 	(f) "Discarded mattress" means a mattress that a consumer discarded, intends to discard, 
45.22 	or abandoned in the state.
45.23 	(g) "Foundation" means any ticking-covered structure that is used to support a mattress 
45.24 	and that is composed of one or more of a constructed frame, foam, or a box spring whether 
45.25 	stationary, adjustable, or foldable.
45.26 	(h) "Mattress" means any resilient material or combination of materials that is enclosed 
45.27 	by ticking, used alone or in combination with other products, and that is intended or promoted 
45.28 	for sleeping upon. Mattress includes any foundation and any used or renovated mattress. 
45.29 	Mattress does not include any mattress pad; mattress topper; sleeping bag; pillow; car bed; 
45.30 	carriage; basket; dressing table; stroller; playpen; infant carrier; lounge pad; crib or bassinet 
45.31 	mattress; crib bumper; liquid or gaseous filled ticking, including any water bed and any air 
45.32 	mattress that does not contain upholstery material between the ticking and the mattress core; 
45.33 	or upholstered furniture, including a sleeper sofa.
46.1 	(i) "Mattress core" means the principal support system that is present in a mattress, 
46.2 	including but not limited to springs, foam, air bladder, water bladder, or resilient filling.
46.3 	(j) "Mattress recycling council" or "council" means the nonprofit organization created 
46.4 	by producers or created by any trade association that represents producers who account for 
46.5 	a majority of mattress production in the United States to design, submit, and implement the 
46.6 	mattress stewardship program. Retailers may participate in the council.
46.7 	(k) "Mattress stewardship fee" means the amount added to the purchase price of a mattress 
46.8 	sold to a consumer or to an ultimate end user in this state that is necessary to cover the cost 
46.9 	of accepting, transporting, and processing discarded mattresses according to the mattress 
46.10 	stewardship program established in this section.
46.11 	(l) "Mattress stewardship program" or "program" means the statewide program and 
46.12 	implemented according to the mattress stewardship plan.
46.13 	(m) "Mattress topper" means an item that contains resilient filling, with or without 
46.14 	ticking, that is intended to be used with or on top of a mattress.
46.15 	(n) "Performance goal" means a metric proposed by the council to annually measure the 
46.16 	performance of the mattress stewardship program, taking into consideration technical and 
46.17 	economic feasibilities in achieving continuous, meaningful improvement in the rate of 
46.18 	mattress recycling in the state and any other specified goal of the program.
46.19 	(o) "Producer" means a person who manufactures or renovates a mattress that is sold, 
46.20 	offered for sale, or distributed in the state under the producer's own name or brand. Producer 
46.21 	includes:
46.22 	(1) the owner of a trademark or brand under which a mattress is sold, offered for sale, 
46.23 	or distributed in this state, whether or not the trademark or brand is registered in this state; 
46.24 	and
46.25 	(2) a person who imports a mattress into the state that is sold or offered for sale in this 
46.26 	state, and that is manufactured or renovated by a person who does not have a presence in 
46.27 	the United States.
46.28 	(p) "Qualified processor" means a recycling entity that recycles mattresses discarded in 
46.29 	the state under a contract with the council that meets the requirements set forth in subdivision 
46.30 	7.
46.31 	(q) "Recyclable mattress" means a mattress that a consumer discarded, intends to discard, 
46.32 	or abandoned in the state, but does not include a mattress that cannot be safely recycled 
46.33 	because it is contaminated by putrescible solid waste or is substantially soiled, is infested 
47.1 	with bedbugs, or poses a risk to worker health or equipment, which should be disposed of 
47.2 	through the existing solid waste system.
47.3 	(r) "Recycling" means a process in which discarded mattresses, components, and 
47.4 	by-products may lose their original identity or form as they are transformed into new, usable, 
47.5 	or marketable materials. Recycling does not include using destructive incineration.
47.6 	(s) "Renovate" or "renovation" means altering a mattress for resale, including any one 
47.7 	or a combination of replacing the ticking or filling, adding additional filling, or replacing 
47.8 	components with new or recycled materials. Renovate or renovation does not include:
47.9 	(1) stripping a mattress of its ticking or filling without adding new material;
47.10 	(2) sanitizing or sterilizing a mattress without otherwise altering the mattress; or
47.11 	(3) a renovator altering a mattress for a person who retains the altered mattress for 
47.12 	personal use, in accordance with chapter 325F.
47.13 	(t) "Renovator" means a person who renovates discarded mattresses to resell the 
47.14 	mattresses to consumers.
47.15 	(u) "Retailer" means a person who sells or offers to sell mattresses to a consumer or to 
47.16 	an ultimate end user in this state.
47.17 	(v) "Sale" means transfer of title of a mattress for consideration to a consumer or an 
47.18 	ultimate end user in the state, including but not limited to by means of a sales outlet, catalog, 
47.19 	website, or similar electronic means.
47.20 	(w) "Sanitizing" means directly applying chemicals to a mattress to kill human 
47.21 	disease-causing pathogens.
47.22 	(x) "Sterilizing" means mitigating deleterious substances or organisms, including human 
47.23 	disease-causing pathogens, fungi, and insects from a mattress or filling material using a 
47.24 	chemical or heat process.
47.25 	(y) "Ticking" means the outermost layer of fabric or material of a mattress. Ticking does 
47.26 	not include any layer of fabric or material quilted together with, or otherwise attached to, 
47.27 	the outermost layer of fabric or material of a mattress.
47.28 	(z) "Unrecyclable mattress" means a mattress that a consumer discarded, intends to 
47.29 	discard, or abandoned in the state that is contaminated by putrescible solid waste or is 
47.30 	substantially soiled, is infested with bedbugs, or poses a risk to worker health or equipment, 
47.31 	which should be disposed of through the existing solid waste system.
48.1 	(aa) "Upholstery material" means all material, loose or attached, between the ticking 
48.2 	and the core of a mattress.
48.3 		Subd. 2.Mattress recycling council; required plan. (a) Within 180 days after the 
48.4 	effective date of this section, producers must establish a mattress recycling council in the 
48.5 	state.
48.6 	(b) Within the later of 180 days after the effective date of this section or 30 days after 
48.7 	becoming a producer thereafter, each producer or the producer's designee must join the 
48.8 	mattress recycling council.
48.9 	(c) Within 365 days after the effective date of this section, the council must submit a 
48.10 	plan for approval by the commissioner to establish a statewide mattress stewardship program, 
48.11 	as described in this subdivision.
48.12 	(d) At least once every five years after the plan identified in paragraph (c) is approved, 
48.13 	the mattress recycling council shall review the plan and determine whether amendments to 
48.14 	the plan are necessary. If the council determines amendments to the plan are necessary, it 
48.15 	shall amend the plan. If the council determines that no amendments to the plan are necessary, 
48.16 	it shall send a letter to the commissioner explaining that the council has reviewed the plan 
48.17 	and determined no revisions are needed. The commissioner may disapprove the council's 
48.18 	determination within 30 days of that determination if it concludes that the council cannot 
48.19 	implement the objectives of this chapter without amending the plan. If the commissioner 
48.20 	disapproves the determination, the commissioner shall explain, in writing, why amendments 
48.21 	to the plan are necessary to comply with this section, and the mattress recycling council 
48.22 	shall resubmit an amended plan. If the commissioner finds that the amended plan resubmitted 
48.23 	by the council does not comply with the requirements of paragraph (e), the mattress recycling 
48.24 	council shall not be deemed in compliance until the council submits an amended plan that 
48.25 	the commissioner finds complies with the requirements of paragraph (e).
48.26 	(e) The mattress stewardship program plan submitted pursuant to this subdivision must, 
48.27 	in an economically efficient and practical manner:
48.28 	(1) provide for a statewide network of convenient and accessible locations to receive 
48.29 	discarded mattresses at no charge to any person in the state with a discarded mattress that 
48.30 	was used and discarded in the state, including but not limited to participating covered entities 
48.31 	that accumulate and segregate a minimum of 100 recyclable mattresses for collection at one 
48.32 	time;
48.33 	(2) may establish requirements for other minimum counts of accumulated mattresses 
48.34 	suitable to the operational constraints of covered entities' collection sites, and shall provide 
49.1 	for the transfer of collected recyclable mattresses from the premises of covered entities to 
49.2 	qualified processors;
49.3 	(3) provide for end-of-life management of discarded mattresses collected according to 
49.4 	clauses (1) and (2) through negotiated agreements with public covered entities that accept 
49.5 	discarded mattresses at no charge to the public that pay the covered entity a fee for its 
49.6 	reasonable actual costs for the proper and cost-effective accepting, storing, transporting, 
49.7 	and handling of discarded mattresses for recycling or disposal. The council and any covered 
49.8 	entity are obligated to negotiate in good faith;
49.9 	(4) provide for recycling of recyclable mattresses by a qualified processor;
49.10 	(5) describe how the council will coordinate the program with existing consolidation, 
49.11 	transportation, and recycling programs for discarded mattresses;
49.12 	(6) provide suitable storage containers at or make other mutually agreeable storage and 
49.13 	transport arrangements for covered entities for segregated, recyclable mattresses, at no cost 
49.14 	to the covered entity, provided the covered entity can accumulate and store at least 50 
49.15 	recyclable mattress, makes space available for the purpose, and imposes no fee for placement 
49.16 	of the storage container on the covered entity premises;
49.17 	(7) provide that the council will conduct research as needed related to improving discarded 
49.18 	mattress collection, dismantling, and recycling operations, including pilot programs to test 
49.19 	new processes, methods, or equipment on a local, regional, or otherwise limited basis;
49.20 	(8) include a mattress stewardship fee set in accordance with paragraph (f) that is 
49.21 	sufficient to cover but not exceed the costs of operating and administering the program;
49.22 	(9) identify each producer and retailer participating in the program as a member of the 
49.23 	council participating in the program;
49.24 	(10) describe the roles and responsibilities of producers and retailers participating in the 
49.25 	program;
49.26 	(11) describe the mattress stewardship fee for the program and a proposed budget;
49.27 	(12) describe the mattress stewardship fee collection procedures and how producers and 
49.28 	retailers are notified of the procedures;
49.29 	(13) establish program performance goals for the first two years of the program and 
49.30 	annual diversion targets and recycling rates of mattresses based on estimated or actual sales 
49.31 	and estimated discarded mattresses;
50.1 	(14) describe how the program will, to the extent economically efficient and practical, 
50.2 	achieve continuous meaningful improvement in the mattress diversion targets, mattress 
50.3 	collection rates, mattress recycling rates, mattress material recovery rates, and any other 
50.4 	approved performance goals of the program;
50.5 	(15) identify proposed consolidation and recycling facilities to be used by the program;
50.6 	(16) describe the action for implementing and achieving convenient, statewide access 
50.7 	to the program;
50.8 	(17) detail how the program will promote recycling discarded mattresses consistent with 
50.9 	the state's solid waste management hierarchy;
50.10 	(18) describe how the council will coordinate the program with existing consolidation, 
50.11 	transportation, and recycling programs for discarded mattresses;
50.12 	(19) establish program performance goals for the material recovery rate from mattresses 
50.13 	collected for recycling and utilize these criteria when evaluating vendor performance;
50.14 	(20) describe how the program will set and implement convenience goals and a timeline 
50.15 	for implementing and achieving convenient access to the program;
50.16 	(21) identify program expenditure categories that will be reported each year in the annual 
50.17 	report;
50.18 	(22) describe how the council will notify the commissioner in a timely manner of events 
50.19 	or circumstances that materially alter or disrupt program operations as approved in the 
50.20 	stewardship plan; and
50.21 	(23) include a description of public education regarding the program.
50.22 	(f) The council must set the amount of the mattress stewardship fee that is added to the 
50.23 	purchase price of a mattress at the point of sale. The council must establish and implement 
50.24 	a mattress stewardship fee structure that covers but does not exceed the costs of developing 
50.25 	the plan described in paragraph (b), operating and administering the program described in 
50.26 	paragraph (a), and maintaining a financial reserve sufficient to operate the program over 
50.27 	multiple years in a fiscally prudent and responsible manner. The council must set the mattress 
50.28 	stewardship fee as a flat rate and not as a percentage of the purchase price. The council must 
50.29 	maintain all records relating to the program for not less than three years.
50.30 	(g) Under the program, recycling is preferred over any other disposal method for 
50.31 	mattresses, to the extent that recycling is economically efficient and practical.
51.1 	(h) The commissioner must approve the plan for establishing the mattress stewardship 
51.2 	program or any amendment if the plan or amendment meets the requirements of paragraphs 
51.3 	(e) to (g). No later than 90 days after the council submits the plan or amendment according 
51.4 	to this section, the commissioner must make a determination whether to approve the plan 
51.5 	or amendment. Before making the determination, the commissioner must post the plan on 
51.6 	the agency's website and offer a 30-day public comment period on the plan. Before approving 
51.7 	or disapproving the plan or amendment, the commissioner may solicit public comments on 
51.8 	the plan or amendment in a manner determined by the commissioner. If the commissioner 
51.9 	disapproves the plan or amendment because the plan or amendment does not meet the 
51.10 	requirements of paragraphs (e) to (g), the commissioner must describe the reasons for the 
51.11 	disapproval in a notice of determination that the commissioner provides to the council. The 
51.12 	council must revise and resubmit the plan to the commissioner within 45 days, or prepare 
51.13 	an amended plan within 180 days, after receiving notice of the commissioner's disapproval. 
51.14 	Within 45 days after receiving the revised plan or amendment, the commissioner must 
51.15 	review and approve or disapprove the plan or amendment and provide a notice of 
51.16 	determination to the council. The council may resubmit a revised plan or amendment to the 
51.17 	commissioner for approval no more than twice. If the council fails to submit a plan or 
51.18 	amendment that is acceptable to the commissioner because it does not meet the requirements 
51.19 	of paragraphs (e) to (g), the commissioner must modify a submitted plan or amendment to 
51.20 	make it conform to the requirements of paragraphs (e) to (g) and approve it. Within 180 
51.21 	days after approval of a plan or amendment according to this paragraph, the council must 
51.22 	implement the mattress stewardship program. Regardless of when the program begins, the 
51.23 	program's fiscal year begins January 1.
51.24 	(i) The council must submit any proposed substantial change to the program to the 
51.25 	commissioner for review and approval, but without resubmitting the plan to the commissioner 
51.26 	for approval. If the commissioner does not disapprove a proposed substantial change within 
51.27 	90 days of receiving notice of the proposed substantial change, the proposed substantial 
51.28 	change is deemed approved. For purposes of this paragraph, "substantial change" means:
51.29 	(1) a change in the processing facilities to be used for a discarded mattress collected 
51.30 	under the program; or
51.31 	(2) a material change to the system for collecting mattresses.
51.32 	(j) The council must notify the commissioner of other material changes to the program 
51.33 	on an ongoing basis, without submitting the change to the commissioner for approval. 
51.34 	Material changes include but are not limited to a change in the composition, officers, or 
51.35 	contact information of the council.
52.1 	(k) Within 90 days after the end of the program's second fiscal year, and every five years 
52.2 	thereafter, the council must submit updated program performance and convenience goals 
52.3 	and associated implementation timelines to the commissioner that are based on the experience 
52.4 	of the program during the first two years of the program, and every subsequent five-year 
52.5 	term for review and approval according to the procedure in paragraph (h).
52.6 	(l) The council must notify the commissioner in a timely manner of any temporary 
52.7 	disruptions in the program as approved, and the council's planned response to the disruption.
52.8 		Subd. 3.Mattress stewardship fee review; prudent reserves. (a) Within 90 days after 
52.9 	the end of the program's second fiscal year and every two years thereafter, the council must 
52.10 	propose a mattress stewardship fee for all mattresses sold in this state.
52.11 	(b) The council may propose a change to the mattress stewardship fee more frequently 
52.12 	than once every two years if the council determines the change is needed to avoid funding 
52.13 	shortfalls or excesses for the mattress stewardship program.
52.14 	(c) Any mattress stewardship fee proposed after the end of the program's second fiscal 
52.15 	year must be reviewed by an independent auditor to ensure that the fee does not exceed the 
52.16 	cost to fund the mattress stewardship program described in subdivision 2, paragraph (f), 
52.17 	and to maintain financial reserves sufficient to operate the program over multiple years in 
52.18 	a fiscally prudent and responsible manner. After the first three fiscal years of program 
52.19 	implementation, the mattress recycling organization shall not maintain total reserves 
52.20 	exceeding 75 percent of its annual operating expenses, consistent with the requirements of 
52.21 	the Financial Accounting Standards Board's Accounting Standards Update 2016-14, 
52.22 	Not-for-Profit Entities (Topic 958), and any future updates to that standard. The commissioner 
52.23 	may authorize the total reserves to be increased up to 100 percent of the organization's 
52.24 	annual operating expenses if the commissioner determines the increase is necessary to 
52.25 	implement the requirements of this section.
52.26 	(d) Within 60 days after the council proposes a mattress stewardship fee, the auditor 
52.27 	must render an opinion to the commissioner as to whether the proposed mattress stewardship 
52.28 	fee is reasonable to achieve the goals set forth in this section. If the auditor concludes that 
52.29 	the mattress stewardship fee is reasonable, then the proposed mattress stewardship fee goes 
52.30 	into effect within 180 days. If the auditor concludes that the mattress stewardship fee is not 
52.31 	reasonable, the auditor must provide the council with written notice explaining the auditor's 
52.32 	opinion. Within 60 days after the council receives the auditor's opinion, the council may 
52.33 	either propose a new mattress stewardship fee or provide written comments on the auditor's 
52.34 	opinion. If the auditor concludes that the mattress stewardship fee is not reasonable, the 
53.1 	commissioner must decide, based on the auditor's opinion and any comments provided by 
53.2 	the council, whether to approve the proposed mattress stewardship fee.
53.3 	(e) The auditor, selected by the council, must be approved by the commissioner. The 
53.4 	cost of any work performed by the auditor under this paragraph must be paid by the mattress 
53.5 	stewardship fee.
53.6 	(f) Two years after the program is implemented and every five years thereafter, the 
53.7 	council must cause a program audit to be conducted by an independent auditor. The audit 
53.8 	must review the accuracy of the council's data concerning the program and provide any 
53.9 	other information requested by the commissioner, consistent with the requirements of this 
53.10 	section, provided the request does not require the disclosure of proprietary information or 
53.11 	trade or business secrets. The council must pay for the audit. The council must maintain all 
53.12 	records relating to the program for at least three years.
53.13 		Subd. 4.Annual report. Not later than July 1 each year, the council must submit an 
53.14 	annual report to the commissioner for the most recently completed calendar year. The council 
53.15 	must post the annual report on the council's website. The commissioner must post a link to 
53.16 	the annual report on the agency's website. The report must include:
53.17 	(1) the tonnage and estimated number of mattresses collected under the program from 
53.18 	participating covered entities;
53.19 	(2) the tonnage and estimated number of mattresses diverted for recycling;
53.20 	(3) the tonnage and estimated number of discarded mattresses for the reporting period 
53.21 	as compiled by the participating covered entities and reported to the council;
53.22 	(4) the weight of mattress materials recycled, as indicated by the weight of each of the 
53.23 	commodities sold to secondary markets and reported by qualified processors to the council;
53.24 	(5) the weight of mattress materials sent for disposal and reported by qualified processors 
53.25 	to the council;
53.26 	(6) a summary of the public education that supports the program and an evaluation of 
53.27 	its effectiveness;
53.28 	(7) an evaluation of the effectiveness of methods and processes used to achieve statewide 
53.29 	convenience and accessibility performance goals of the program;
53.30 	(8) recommendations for any changes to the program;
53.31 	(9) total annual mattress sales and mattress stewardship fee revenues;
54.1 	(10) an assessment of program performance for the reporting period compared to the 
54.2 	program performance goals in the approved plan;
54.3 	(11) an assessment of the effectiveness of different types of mattress collection and 
54.4 	consolidation programs used throughout the state;
54.5 	(12) annual program expenditures by program expenditure category;
54.6 	(13) audited financial statements required by subdivision 3, paragraph (f); and
54.7 	(14) other information consistent with this section and economically efficient and practical 
54.8 	to provide, requested by the commissioner.
54.9 		Subd. 5.Charging mattress stewardship fee; retailer and producer 
54.10 	participation. Upon implementation of the mattress stewardship program, each manufacturer, 
54.11 	renovator, retailer, or distributor that sells a mattress to a consumer or to an ultimate end 
54.12 	user in the state must add the mattress stewardship fee to the purchase price for the mattress 
54.13 	and must remit the mattress stewardship fee collected to the council. In each transaction, 
54.14 	the mattress stewardship fee must appear on the invoice and may be accompanied by a brief 
54.15 	description of the mattress stewardship fee. The council must determine the rules and 
54.16 	procedures necessary to implement collection of the mattress stewardship fee in a fair, 
54.17 	efficient, and lawful manner. Any producer or retailer who fails to participate in the program 
54.18 	must not sell mattresses in this state.
54.19 		Subd. 6.Receipt of discarded mattresses. Upon implementation of the mattress 
54.20 	stewardship program and when the mattress stewardship fee goes into effect, a covered 
54.21 	entity that participates in the program must not charge for the receipt of discarded mattresses 
54.22 	that are discarded in this state, except that a person or entity may charge a fee for providing 
54.23 	a pickup service, including residential or commercial pickup services. A covered entity may 
54.24 	restrict the acceptance of mattresses by number or source.
54.25 		Subd. 7.Qualified processor. (a) The council shall collect from each qualified recycler 
54.26 	the name, address, telephone number, and location of all mattress recycling facilities under 
54.27 	the direct control of the processor that may receive mattresses.
54.28 	(b) The council's contract with each of its qualified processors must require that the 
54.29 	processor:
54.30 	(1) comply with the requirements of this section;
54.31 	(2) comply with all applicable health, environmental, safety, and financial responsibility 
54.32 	regulations;
55.1 	(3) be licensed by all applicable governmental authorities; and
55.2 	(4) possess commercial general liability insurance of not less than $1,000,000 per 
55.3 	occurrence.
55.4 	(c) By March 1 of each year, each qualified processor shall submit an annual report to 
55.5 	the council in a format prescribed by the council, indicating the name and address of the 
55.6 	recycling facility, the fiscal year covered by the report, the quantity and weight of the 
55.7 	mattresses processed at the facility, and the amount by weight of each category of material 
55.8 	removed from discarded mattresses shipped to brokers, processors, manufacturers, solid 
55.9 	waste facilities, or other destinations.
55.10 		Subd. 8.Consultation required. The mattress recycling council must consult with 
55.11 	stakeholders which may include retailers, collectors, recyclers, local governments, and 
55.12 	consumers during the development of the plan and any amendment of the plan.
55.13 		Subd. 9.Plan availability. All draft and approved stewardship plans shall be placed on 
55.14 	the council and agency's websites for at least 30 days and made available at the agency's 
55.15 	headquarters for public review and comment.
55.16 		Subd. 10.Data classification. Data submitted to the council or agency under this section 
55.17 	are trade secret, private, or nonpublic data under section 13.37. Trade secret, sales information 
55.18 	as defined under section 13.37, and contracts submitted to the agency under this section are 
55.19 	private or nonpublic data under section 13.37.
55.20 		Subd. 11.Regional collaboration. In the event that another state implements a mattress 
55.21 	recycling program, the council may collaborate with that state to conserve efforts and 
55.22 	resources used in carrying out the mattress stewardship program, provided the collaboration 
55.23 	is consistent with the requirements of this section.
55.24 		Subd. 12.Local government participation. (a) Cities, counties, public agencies, or 
55.25 	other political subdivisions may choose to participate in the stewardship program.
55.26 	(b) Cities, counties, public agencies, or other political subdivisions are encouraged to 
55.27 	work with producers and the council to assist in meeting program goals and obligations by 
55.28 	providing education, outreach, or other strategies.
55.29 		Subd. 13.Producer and retailer participation. A producer must join the council as 
55.30 	required in subdivision 2, paragraph (b). A retailer or other person selling a mattress to the 
55.31 	final consumer in the state must remit the mattress stewardship fee to the council for 
55.32 	mattresses sold to consumers in the state. A producer may not sell or distribute for sale or 
55.33 	use a mattress in the state if it has not joined the council. A retailer may not sell or distribute 
56.1 	for use mattresses of a producer that has not joined the council, except for inventory acquired 
56.2 	before the start date of the program or acquired during a time when the producer was 
56.3 	participating in the council.
56.4 		Subd. 14.Prohibited uses. Stewardship assessment funds must not be used for any 
56.5 	penalties assessed under this section.
56.6 		Subd. 15.Duty to provide information. Any producer, retailer, participating covered 
56.7 	entity, or qualified processor must furnish to the agency any information which that person 
56.8 	may have or may reasonably obtain that the agency requests for the sole purpose of 
56.9 	determining compliance under this section.

56.10 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective January 1, 2023.

56.11 	Sec. 54. [115A.571] CHEMICAL PLASTIC RECYCLING.
56.12 		Subdivision 1.Chemical plastic recycling facility. A chemical plastic recycling facility 
56.13 	and chemical plastic recycling are subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws, 
56.14 	except chapters 115, 115A, and 116, and the rules adopted pursuant to those chapters.
56.15 		Subd. 2.Solid waste management exemption requirements. (a) The solid waste 
56.16 	management exemption in subdivision 1 does not apply:
56.17 	(1) if any solid waste other than or in addition to a post-use polymer or residual amounts 
56.18 	of organic material and incidental contaminants are treated, stored, processed, transferred, 
56.19 	or disposed of at a chemical plastic recycling facility; or
56.20 	(2) to management of post-use polymers at any location other than a chemical plastic 
56.21 	recycling facility.
56.22 	(b) To qualify for the solid waste management facility permit exemption in subdivision 
56.23 	1, a chemical plastic recycling facility must only treat, store, or process post-use polymers 
56.24 	in a fully enclosed building.
56.25 	(c) The commissioner may enter and inspect any chemical plastic recycling facility to 
56.26 	determine whether the storage of materials prior to chemical plastic recycling is a nuisance 
56.27 	or poses a threat to human health or the environment. The commissioner may use the 
56.28 	enforcement authority under section 116.072 and Minnesota Rules, chapter 7035, to require 
56.29 	abatement of the nuisance or threat if found.
56.30 		Subd. 3.Duty to report. The owner or operator of a chemical plastic recycling facility 
56.31 	must submit an annual report to the commissioner in a form and manner prescribed by the 
56.32 	commissioner that must include:
57.1 	(1) the amount of post-use polymers accepted, stored, and managed at the facility;
57.2 	(2) annual chemical plastic recycling throughput at the facility, including beginning and 
57.3 	ending volumes stored in a calendar year;
57.4 	(3) to the extent known, the source and county of origin of the post-use polymers and 
57.5 	the amount and type of material collected from each source; and
57.6 	(4) the amount, type, and destination of products and by-products produced through the 
57.7 	chemical plastic recycling, such as what weight of post-use polymers received went to an 
57.8 	end market, a broker, a processor, or a manufacturer or was managed as a waste.
57.9 		Subd. 4.Duty to provide information. Any person must furnish to the commissioner 
57.10 	any information that the person may have or may reasonably obtain that the commissioner 
57.11 	requests for the purposes of determining compliance with statutes or rules pertaining to 
57.12 	chemical plastic recycling.

57.13 	Sec. 55. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 115B.52, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
57.14 		Subd. 4.Reporting. The commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency and the 
57.15 	commissioner of natural resources must jointly submit:
57.16 	(1) by April 1, 2019, an implementation plan detailing how the commissioners will:
57.17 	(i) determine how the priorities in the settlement will be met and how the spending will 
57.18 	move from the first priority to the second priority and the second priority to the third priority 
57.19 	outlined in the settlement; and
57.20 	(ii) evaluate and determine what projects receive funding;
57.21 	(2) by February 1 and August October 1 each year, a biannual report to the chairs and 
57.22 	ranking minority members of the legislative policy and finance committees with jurisdiction 
57.23 	over environment and natural resources on expenditures from the water quality and 
57.24 	sustainability account during the previous six months fiscal year; and
57.25 	(3) by August 1, 2019, and October 1 each year thereafter, a report to the legislature on 
57.26 	expenditures from the water quality and sustainability account during the previous fiscal 
57.27 	year and a spending plan for anticipated expenditures from the account during the current 
57.28 	fiscal year.

57.29 	Sec. 56. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 116.03, subdivision 2b, is amended to read:
57.30 		Subd. 2b.Permitting efficiency. (a) It is the goal of the state that environmental and 
57.31 	resource management permits be issued or denied within 90 days for tier 1 permits or 150 
58.1 	days for tier 2 permits following submission of a permit application. The commissioner of 
58.2 	the Pollution Control Agency shall must establish management systems designed to achieve 
58.3 	the goal. For the purposes of this section, "tier 1 permits" are permits that do not require 
58.4 	individualized actions or public comment periods, and "tier 2 permits" are permits that 
58.5 	require individualized actions or public comment periods.
58.6 	(b) The commissioner shall must prepare an annual semiannual permitting efficiency 
58.7 	report reports that includes include statistics on meeting the tier 2 goal in paragraph (a) and 
58.8 	the criteria for tier 2 by permit categories. The report is reports are due on February 1 and 
58.9 	August 1 each year. For permit applications that have not met the goal, the each report must 
58.10 	state the reasons for not meeting the goal. In stating the reasons for not meeting the goal, 
58.11 	the commissioner shall must separately identify delays caused by the responsiveness of the 
58.12 	proposer, lack of staff, scientific or technical disagreements, or the level of public 
58.13 	engagement. The Each report must specify the number of days from initial submission of 
58.14 	the application to the day of determination that the application is complete. The Each report 
58.15 	must aggregate the data for the year reporting period and assess whether program or system 
58.16 	changes are necessary to achieve the goal. Whenever a report required by this subdivision 
58.17 	states the number of permits completed within a particular period, the report must, 
58.18 	immediately after the number and in parentheses, state the percentage of total applications 
58.19 	received for that permit category that the number represents. Whenever a report required 
58.20 	by this subdivision states the number of permits completed within a particular period, the 
58.21 	report must separately state completion data for industrial and municipal permits. The report
58.22 	reports must be posted on the agency's website and submitted to the governor and the chairs 
58.23 	and ranking minority members of the house of representatives and senate committees having 
58.24 	jurisdiction over environment policy and finance.
58.25 	(c) The commissioner shall must allow electronic submission of environmental review 
58.26 	and permit documents to the agency.
58.27 	(d) Within 30 business days of application for a permit subject to paragraph (a), the 
58.28 	commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency shall must notify the permit applicant, in 
58.29 	writing, whether the application is complete or incomplete. If the commissioner determines 
58.30 	that an application is incomplete, the notice to the applicant must enumerate all deficiencies, 
58.31 	citing specific provisions of the applicable rules and statutes, and advise the applicant on 
58.32 	how the deficiencies can be remedied. If the commissioner determines that the application 
58.33 	is complete, the notice must confirm the application's tier 1 or tier 2 permit status. If the 
58.34 	commissioner believes that a complete application for a tier 2 construction permit cannot 
58.35 	be issued within the 150-day goal, the commissioner must provide notice to the applicant 
59.1 	with the commissioner's notice that the application is complete and, upon request of the 
59.2 	applicant, provide the permit applicant with a schedule estimating when the agency will 
59.3 	begin drafting the permit and issue the public notice of the draft permit. This paragraph 
59.4 	does not apply to an application for a permit that is subject to a grant or loan agreement 
59.5 	under chapter 446A.
59.6 	(e) For purposes of this subdivision, "permit professional" means an individual not 
59.7 	employed by the Pollution Control Agency who:
59.8 	(1) has a professional license issued by the state of Minnesota in the subject area of the 
59.9 	permit;
59.10 	(2) has at least ten years of experience in the subject area of the permit; and
59.11 	(3) abides by the duty of candor applicable to employees of the Pollution Control Agency 
59.12 	under agency rules and complies with all applicable requirements under chapter 326.
59.13 	(f) Upon the agency's request, an applicant relying on a permit professional must 
59.14 	participate in a meeting with the agency before submitting an application:
59.15 	(1) at least two weeks prior to the preapplication meeting, the applicant must submit at 
59.16 	least the following:
59.17 	(i) project description, including, but not limited to, scope of work, primary emissions 
59.18 	points, discharge outfalls, and water intake points;
59.19 	(ii) location of the project, including county, municipality, and location on the site;
59.20 	(iii) business schedule for project completion; and
59.21 	(iv) other information requested by the agency at least four weeks prior to the scheduled 
59.22 	meeting; and
59.23 	(2) during the preapplication meeting, the agency shall must provide for the applicant 
59.24 	at least the following:
59.25 	(i) an overview of the permit review program;
59.26 	(ii) a determination of which specific application or applications will be necessary to 
59.27 	complete the project;
59.28 	(iii) a statement notifying the applicant if the specific permit being sought requires a 
59.29 	mandatory public hearing or comment period;
59.30 	(iv) a review of the timetable established in the permit review program for the specific 
59.31 	permit being sought; and
60.1 	(v) a determination of what information must be included in the application, including 
60.2 	a description of any required modeling or testing.
60.3 	(g) The applicant may select a permit professional to undertake the preparation of the 
60.4 	permit application and draft permit.
60.5 	(h) If a preapplication meeting was held, the agency shall must, within seven business 
60.6 	days of receipt of an application, notify the applicant and submitting permit professional 
60.7 	that the application is complete or is denied, specifying the deficiencies of the application.
60.8 	(i) Upon receipt of notice that the application is complete, the permit professional shall
60.9 	must submit to the agency a timetable for submitting a draft permit. The permit professional 
60.10 	shall must submit a draft permit on or before the date provided in the timetable. Within 60 
60.11 	days after the close of the public comment period, the commissioner shall must notify the 
60.12 	applicant whether the permit can be issued.
60.13 	(j) Nothing in this section shall must be construed to modify:
60.14 	(1) any requirement of law that is necessary to retain federal delegation to or assumption 
60.15 	by the state; or
60.16 	(2) the authority to implement a federal law or program.
60.17 	(k) The permit application and draft permit shall must identify or include as an appendix 
60.18 	all studies and other sources of information used to substantiate the analysis contained in 
60.19 	the permit application and draft permit. The commissioner shall must request additional 
60.20 	studies, if needed, and the permit applicant shall must submit all additional studies and 
60.21 	information necessary for the commissioner to perform the commissioner's responsibility 
60.22 	to review, modify, and determine the completeness of the application and approve the draft 
60.23 	permit.

60.24 	Sec. 57. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 116.07, subdivision 4d, is amended to read:
60.25 		Subd. 4d.Permit fees. (a) The agency may collect permit fees in amounts not greater 
60.26 	than those necessary to cover the reasonable costs of developing, reviewing, and acting 
60.27 	upon applications for agency permits and implementing and enforcing the conditions of the 
60.28 	permits pursuant to agency rules. Permit fees shall must not include the costs of litigation. 
60.29 	The fee schedule must reflect reasonable and routine direct and indirect costs associated 
60.30 	with permitting, implementation, and enforcement. The agency may impose an additional 
60.31 	enforcement fee to be collected for a period of up to two years to cover the reasonable costs 
60.32 	of implementing and enforcing the conditions of a permit under the rules of the agency. 
60.33 	Water fees under this paragraph are subject to legislative approval under section 16A.1283. 
61.1 	Any money collected under this paragraph shall must be deposited in the environmental 
61.2 	fund.
61.3 	(b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a), the agency shall must collect an annual fee from the 
61.4 	owner or operator of all stationary sources, emission facilities, emissions units, air 
61.5 	contaminant treatment facilities, treatment facilities, potential air contaminant storage 
61.6 	facilities, or storage facilities subject to a notification, permit, or license requirement under 
61.7 	this chapter, subchapters I and V of the federal Clean Air Act, United States Code, title 42, 
61.8 	section 7401 et seq., or rules adopted thereunder. The annual fee shall must be used to pay 
61.9 	for all direct and indirect reasonable costs, including legal costs, required to develop and 
61.10 	administer the notification, permit, or license program requirements of this chapter, 
61.11 	subchapters I and V of the federal Clean Air Act, United States Code, title 42, section 7401 
61.12 	et seq., or rules adopted thereunder. Those costs include the reasonable costs of reviewing 
61.13 	and acting upon an application for a permit; implementing and enforcing statutes, rules, and 
61.14 	the terms and conditions of a permit; emissions, ambient, and deposition monitoring; 
61.15 	preparing generally applicable regulations; responding to federal guidance; modeling, 
61.16 	analyses, and demonstrations; preparing inventories and tracking emissions; and providing 
61.17 	information to the public about these activities.
61.18 	(c) The agency shall must set fees that:
61.19 	(1) will result in the collection, in the aggregate, from the sources listed in paragraph 
61.20 	(b), of an amount not less than $25 per ton of each volatile organic compound; pollutant 
61.21 	regulated under United States Code, title 42, section 7411 or 7412 (section 111 or 112 of 
61.22 	the federal Clean Air Act); and each pollutant, except carbon monoxide, for which a national 
61.23 	primary ambient air quality standard has been promulgated;
61.24 	(2) may result in the collection, in the aggregate, from the sources listed in paragraph 
61.25 	(b), of an amount not less than $25 per ton of each pollutant not listed in clause (1) that is 
61.26 	regulated under this chapter or air quality rules adopted under this chapter; and
61.27 	(3) shall must collect, in the aggregate, from the sources listed in paragraph (b), the 
61.28 	amount needed to match grant funds received by the state under United States Code, title 
61.29 	42, section 7405 (section 105 of the federal Clean Air Act).
61.30 	The agency must not include in the calculation of the aggregate amount to be collected 
61.31 	under clauses (1) and (2) any amount in excess of 4,000 tons per year of each air pollutant 
61.32 	from a source. The increase in air permit fees to match federal grant funds shall be is a 
61.33 	surcharge on existing fees. The commissioner may not collect the surcharge after the grant 
62.1 	funds become unavailable. In addition, the commissioner shall must use nonfee funds to 
62.2 	the extent practical to match the grant funds so that the fee surcharge is minimized.
62.3 	(d) To cover the reasonable costs described in paragraph (b), the agency shall must
62.4 	provide in the rules promulgated under paragraph (c) for an increase in the fee collected in 
62.5 	each year by the percentage, if any, by which the Consumer Price Index for the most recent 
62.6 	calendar year ending before the beginning of the year the fee is collected exceeds the 
62.7 	Consumer Price Index for the calendar year 1989. For purposes of this paragraph, the 
62.8 	Consumer Price Index for any calendar year is the average of the Consumer Price Index for 
62.9 	all-urban consumers published by the United States Department of Labor, as of the close 
62.10 	of the 12-month period ending on August 31 of each calendar year. The revision of the 
62.11 	Consumer Price Index that is most consistent with the Consumer Price Index for calendar 
62.12 	year 1989 shall must be used.
62.13 	(e) Any money collected under paragraphs (b) to (d) must be deposited in the 
62.14 	environmental fund and must be used solely for the activities listed in paragraph (b).
62.15 	(f) Permit applicants who wish to construct, reconstruct, or modify a project may offer 
62.16 	to reimburse the agency for the costs of staff time or consultant services needed to expedite 
62.17 	the preapplication process and permit development process through the final decision on 
62.18 	the permit, including the analysis of environmental review documents. The reimbursement 
62.19 	shall be is in addition to permit application fees imposed by law. When the agency determines 
62.20 	that it needs additional resources to develop the permit application in an expedited manner,
62.21 	and that expediting the development is consistent with permitting program priorities, the 
62.22 	agency may accept the reimbursement. The commissioner must give the applicant an estimate 
62.23 	of costs to be incurred by the commissioner. The estimate must include a brief description 
62.24 	of the tasks to be performed, a schedule for completing the tasks, and the estimated cost for 
62.25 	each task. The applicant and the commissioner must enter into a written agreement detailing 
62.26 	the estimated costs for the expedited permit decision-making process to be incurred by the 
62.27 	agency. The agreement must also identify staff anticipated to be assigned to the project. 
62.28 	The commissioner must not issue a permit until the applicant has paid all fees in full. The 
62.29 	commissioner must refund any unobligated balance of fees paid. Reimbursements accepted 
62.30 	by the agency are appropriated to the agency for the purpose of developing the permit or 
62.31 	analyzing environmental review documents. Reimbursement by a permit applicant shall
62.32 	must precede and not be contingent upon issuance of a permit; shall must not affect the 
62.33 	agency's decision on whether to issue or deny a permit, what conditions are included in a 
62.34 	permit, or the application of state and federal statutes and rules governing permit 
62.35 	determinations; and shall must not affect final decisions regarding environmental review.
63.1 	(g) The fees under this subdivision are exempt from section 16A.1285.

63.2 	Sec. 58. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 116.07, is amended by adding a subdivision to 
63.3 	read:
63.4 		Subd. 13.Unadopted rules. The commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency must 
63.5 	not enforce or attempt to enforce an unadopted rule. For purposes of this subdivision, 
63.6 	"unadopted rule" means a guideline, bulletin, criterion, manual standard, interpretive 
63.7 	statement, policy plan, or similar pronouncement if the guideline, bulletin, criterion, manual 
63.8 	standard, interpretive statement, policy plan, or similar pronouncement has not been adopted 
63.9 	according to the rulemaking process provided under chapter 14. If an unadopted rule is 
63.10 	challenged under section 14.381, the commissioner must cease enforcement of the unadopted 
63.11 	rule and overcome a presumption that the unadopted rule must be adopted according to the 
63.12 	rulemaking process provided under chapter 14.

63.13 	Sec. 59. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 116B.03, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
63.14 		Subdivision 1.Parties. Any person residing within the state; the attorney general; any 
63.15 	political subdivision of the state; any instrumentality or agency of the state or of a political 
63.16 	subdivision thereof; or any partnership, corporation, association, organization, or other 
63.17 	entity having shareholders, members, partners or employees residing within the state may 
63.18 	maintain a civil action in the district court for declaratory or equitable relief in the name of 
63.19 	the state of Minnesota against any person, for the protection of the air, water, land, or other 
63.20 	natural resources located within the state, whether publicly or privately owned, from 
63.21 	pollution, impairment, or destruction; provided, however, that no action shall be is allowable 
63.22 	hereunder under this section for:
63.23 	(1) acts taken by a person on land leased or owned by said person pursuant to a permit 
63.24 	or license issued by the owner of the land to said person which do not and can not reasonably 
63.25 	be expected to pollute, impair, or destroy any other air, water, land, or other natural resources 
63.26 	located within the state; provided further that no action shall be allowable under this section 
63.27 	for
63.28 	(2) conduct taken by a person pursuant to any environmental quality standard, limitation, 
63.29 	rule, order, license, stipulation agreement or permit issued by the Pollution Control Agency, 
63.30 	Department of Natural Resources, Department of Health or Department of Agriculture.; or
63.31 	(3) issuance of a groundwater appropriation permit that meets the criteria under section 
63.32 	103G.287, subdivision 6, by the Department of Natural Resources. This clause expires 
63.33 	January 1, 2041.

64.1 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment and 
64.2 	applies to applications for new or modified permits filed on or after that date.

64.3 	Sec. 60. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 116B.10, is amended by adding a subdivision 
64.4 	to read:
64.5 		Subd. 6.Application. No action is allowable under this section for issuance of a 
64.6 	groundwater appropriation permit that meets the criteria under section 103G.287, subdivision 
64.7 	6, by the Department of Natural Resources. This subdivision expires January 1, 2041.

64.8 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment and 
64.9 	applies to applications for new or modified permits filed on or after that date.

64.10 	Sec. 61. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 116D.04, subdivision 2a, is amended to read:
64.11 		Subd. 2a.When prepared. (a) Where there is potential for significant environmental 
64.12 	effects resulting from any major governmental action, the action must be preceded by a 
64.13 	detailed environmental impact statement prepared by the responsible governmental unit. 
64.14 	The environmental impact statement must be an analytical rather than an encyclopedic 
64.15 	document that describes the proposed action in detail, analyzes its significant environmental 
64.16 	impacts, discusses appropriate alternatives to the proposed action and their impacts, and 
64.17 	explores methods by which adverse environmental impacts of an action could be mitigated. 
64.18 	The environmental impact statement must also analyze those economic, employment, and 
64.19 	sociological effects that cannot be avoided should the action be implemented. To ensure its 
64.20 	use in the decision-making process, the environmental impact statement must be prepared 
64.21 	as early as practical in the formulation of an action.
64.22 	(b) The board shall must by rule establish categories of actions for which environmental 
64.23 	impact statements and for which environmental assessment worksheets must be prepared 
64.24 	as well as categories of actions for which no environmental review is required under this 
64.25 	section. A mandatory environmental assessment worksheet is not required for the expansion 
64.26 	of an ethanol plant, as defined in section 41A.09, subdivision 2a, paragraph (b), or the 
64.27 	conversion of an ethanol plant to a biobutanol facility or the expansion of a biobutanol 
64.28 	facility as defined in section 41A.15, subdivision 2d, based on the capacity of the expanded 
64.29 	or converted facility to produce alcohol fuel, but must be required if the ethanol plant or 
64.30 	biobutanol facility meets or exceeds thresholds of other categories of actions for which 
64.31 	environmental assessment worksheets must be prepared. The responsible governmental unit 
64.32 	for an ethanol plant or biobutanol facility project for which an environmental assessment 
65.1 	worksheet is prepared is the state agency with the greatest responsibility for supervising or 
65.2 	approving the project as a whole.
65.3 	(c) A mandatory environmental impact statement is not required for a facility or plant 
65.4 	located outside the seven-county metropolitan area that produces less than 125,000,000 
65.5 	gallons of ethanol, biobutanol, or cellulosic biofuel annually, or produces less than 400,000 
65.6 	tons of chemicals annually, if the facility or plant is: an ethanol plant, as defined in section 
65.7 	41A.09, subdivision 2a, paragraph (b); a biobutanol facility, as defined in section 41A.15, 
65.8 	subdivision 2d; or a cellulosic biofuel facility. A facility or plant that only uses a cellulosic 
65.9 	feedstock to produce chemical products for use by another facility as a feedstock is not 
65.10 	considered a fuel conversion facility as used in rules adopted under this chapter.
65.11 	(d) The responsible governmental unit shall must promptly publish notice of the 
65.12 	completion of an environmental assessment worksheet by publishing the notice in at least 
65.13 	one newspaper of general circulation in the geographic area where the project is proposed, 
65.14 	by posting the notice on a website that has been designated as the official publication site 
65.15 	for publication of proceedings, public notices, and summaries of a political subdivision in 
65.16 	which the project is proposed, or in any other manner determined by the board and shall
65.17 	must provide copies of the environmental assessment worksheet to the board and its member 
65.18 	agencies. Comments on the need for an environmental impact statement may be submitted 
65.19 	to the responsible governmental unit during a 30-day period following publication of the 
65.20 	notice that an environmental assessment worksheet has been completed. The responsible 
65.21 	governmental unit may extend the 30-day comment period for an additional 30 days one 
65.22 	time. Further extensions of the comment period may not be made unless approved by the 
65.23 	project's proposer. The responsible governmental unit's decision on the need for an 
65.24 	environmental impact statement must be based on the environmental assessment worksheet 
65.25 	and the comments received during the comment period, and must be made within 15 days 
65.26 	after the close of the comment period. The board's chair may extend the 15-day period by 
65.27 	not more than 15 additional days upon the request of the responsible governmental unit.
65.28 	(e) An environmental assessment worksheet must also be prepared for a proposed action 
65.29 	whenever material evidence accompanying a petition by not less than 100 individuals who 
65.30 	reside or own property in the state a county where the proposed action will be undertaken 
65.31 	or in one or more adjoining counties, submitted before the proposed project has received 
65.32 	final approval by the appropriate governmental units, demonstrates that, because of the 
65.33 	nature or location of a proposed action, there may be potential for significant environmental 
65.34 	effects. Petitions requesting the preparation of an environmental assessment worksheet must 
65.35 	be submitted to the board. The chair of the board shall must determine the appropriate 
66.1 	responsible governmental unit and forward the petition to it. A decision on the need for an 
66.2 	environmental assessment worksheet must be made by the responsible governmental unit 
66.3 	within 15 days after the petition is received by the responsible governmental unit. The 
66.4 	board's chair may extend the 15-day period by not more than 15 additional days upon request 
66.5 	of the responsible governmental unit.
66.6 	(f) Except in an environmentally sensitive location where Minnesota Rules, part 
66.7 	4410.4300, subpart 29, item B, applies, the proposed action is exempt from environmental 
66.8 	review under this chapter and rules of the board, if:
66.9 	(1) the proposed action is:
66.10 	(i) an animal feedlot facility with a capacity of less than 1,000 animal units; or
66.11 	(ii) an expansion of an existing animal feedlot facility with a total cumulative capacity 
66.12 	of less than 1,000 animal units;
66.13 	(2) the application for the animal feedlot facility includes a written commitment by the 
66.14 	proposer to design, construct, and operate the facility in full compliance with Pollution 
66.15 	Control Agency feedlot rules; and
66.16 	(3) the county board holds a public meeting for citizen input at least ten business days 
66.17 	before the Pollution Control Agency or county issuing a feedlot permit for the animal feedlot 
66.18 	facility unless another public meeting for citizen input has been held with regard to the 
66.19 	feedlot facility to be permitted. The exemption in this paragraph is in addition to other 
66.20 	exemptions provided under other law and rules of the board.
66.21 	(g) The board may, before final approval of a proposed project, require preparation of 
66.22 	an environmental assessment worksheet by a responsible governmental unit selected by the 
66.23 	board for any action where environmental review under this section has not been specifically 
66.24 	provided for by rule or otherwise initiated.
66.25 	(h) An early and open process must be used to limit the scope of the environmental 
66.26 	impact statement to a discussion of those impacts that, because of the nature or location of 
66.27 	the project, have the potential for significant environmental effects. The same process must 
66.28 	be used to determine the form, content, and level of detail of the statement as well as the 
66.29 	alternatives that are appropriate for consideration in the statement. In addition, the permits 
66.30 	that will be required for the proposed action must be identified during the scoping process. 
66.31 	Further, the process must identify those permits for which information will be developed 
66.32 	concurrently with the environmental impact statement. The board shall must provide in its 
66.33 	rules for the expeditious completion of the scoping process. The determinations reached in 
67.1 	the process must be incorporated into the order requiring the preparation of an environmental 
67.2 	impact statement.
67.3 	(i) The responsible governmental unit shall must, to the extent practicable, avoid 
67.4 	duplication and ensure coordination between state and federal environmental review and 
67.5 	between environmental review and environmental permitting. Whenever practical, 
67.6 	information needed by a governmental unit for making final decisions on permits or other 
67.7 	actions required for a proposed project must be developed in conjunction with the preparation 
67.8 	of an environmental impact statement. When an environmental impact statement is prepared 
67.9 	for a project requiring multiple permits for which two or more agencies' decision processes 
67.10 	include either mandatory or discretionary hearings before a hearing officer before the 
67.11 	agencies' decision on the permit, the agencies may, notwithstanding any law or rule to the 
67.12 	contrary, conduct the hearings in a single consolidated hearing process if requested by the 
67.13 	proposer. All agencies having jurisdiction over a permit that is included in the consolidated 
67.14 	hearing shall must participate. The responsible governmental unit shall must establish 
67.15 	appropriate procedures for the consolidated hearing process, including procedures to ensure 
67.16 	that the consolidated hearing process is consistent with the applicable requirements for each 
67.17 	permit regarding the rights and duties of parties to the hearing, and shall must use the earliest 
67.18 	applicable hearing procedure to initiate the hearing. All agencies having jurisdiction over 
67.19 	a permit identified in the draft environmental assessment worksheet scoping document must 
67.20 	begin reviewing any permit application upon publication of the notice of preparation of the 
67.21 	environmental impact statement.
67.22 	(j) An environmental impact statement must be prepared and its adequacy determined 
67.23 	within 280 days after notice of its preparation unless the time is extended by consent of the 
67.24 	parties or by the governor for good cause. The responsible governmental unit shall must
67.25 	determine the adequacy of an environmental impact statement, unless within 60 days after 
67.26 	notice is published that an environmental impact statement will be prepared, the board 
67.27 	chooses to determine the adequacy of an environmental impact statement. If an environmental 
67.28 	impact statement is found to be inadequate, the responsible governmental unit has 60 days 
67.29 	to prepare an adequate environmental impact statement.
67.30 	(k) The proposer of a specific action may include in the information submitted to the 
67.31 	responsible governmental unit a preliminary draft environmental impact statement under 
67.32 	this section on that action for review, modification, and determination of completeness and 
67.33 	adequacy by the responsible governmental unit. A preliminary draft environmental impact 
67.34 	statement prepared by the project proposer and submitted to the responsible governmental 
67.35 	unit must identify or include as an appendix all studies and other sources of information 
68.1 	used to substantiate the analysis contained in the preliminary draft environmental impact 
68.2 	statement. The responsible governmental unit shall must require additional studies, if needed, 
68.3 	and obtain from the project proposer all additional studies and information necessary for 
68.4 	the responsible governmental unit to perform its responsibility to review, modify, and 
68.5 	determine the completeness and adequacy of the environmental impact statement.
68.6 	(l) A mandatory environmental assessment worksheet is not required for a project that 
68.7 	will diminish the course, current, or cross-section of one acre or more of any water unless 
68.8 	the affected water is on the public waters inventory described in section 103G.201.

68.9 	Sec. 62. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 116U.55, is amended by adding a subdivision 
68.10 	to read:
68.11 		Subd. 3.Events promotion account. The events promotion account is established as a 
68.12 	separate account in the natural resources fund. Money received under section 297A.94, 
68.13 	paragraph (l), must be deposited into the events promotion account for promoting special 
68.14 	events in the state. At least 50 percent of the money appropriated under this subdivision 
68.15 	must be for promoting special events outside of the metropolitan area.

68.16 	Sec. 63. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 127A.353, subdivision 2, is amended to read:
68.17 		Subd. 2.Qualifications. The governor shall select the school trust lands director on the 
68.18 	basis of outstanding professional qualifications and knowledge of finance, business practices, 
68.19 	minerals, forest and real estate management, and the fiduciary responsibilities of a trustee 
68.20 	to the beneficiaries of a trust. The school trust lands director serves in the unclassified service 
68.21 	for a term of four years. The first term shall end on December 31, 2020. The governor may 
68.22 	remove the school trust lands director for cause. If a director resigns or is removed for cause, 
68.23 	the governor shall appoint a director for the remainder of the term.

68.24 	Sec. 64. Minnesota Statutes 2021 Supplement, section 127A.353, subdivision 4, is amended 
68.25 	to read:
68.26 		Subd. 4.Duties; powers. (a) The school trust lands director shall:
68.27 	(1) take an oath of office before assuming any duties as the director act in a fiduciary 
68.28 	capacity for trust beneficiaries in accordance with the principles under section 127A.351;
68.29 	(2) evaluate the school trust land asset position;
68.30 	(3) determine the estimated current and potential market value of school trust lands;
69.1 	(4) advise and provide recommendations to the governor, Executive Council, 
69.2 	commissioner of natural resources, and the Legislative Permanent School Fund Commission 
69.3 	on the management of school trust lands, including: on school trust land management policies 
69.4 	and other policies that may affect the goal of the permanent school fund under section 
69.5 	127A.31;
69.6 	(5) advise and provide recommendations to the Executive Council and Land Exchange 
69.7 	Board on all matters regarding school trust lands presented to either body;
69.8 	(6) advise and provide recommendations to the commissioner of natural resources on 
69.9 	managing school trust lands, including but not limited to advice and recommendations on:
69.10 	(i) Department of Natural Resources school trust land management plans;
69.11 	(ii) leases of school trust lands;
69.12 	(iii) royalty agreements on school trust lands;
69.13 	(iv) land sales and exchanges;
69.14 	(v) cost certification; and
69.15 	(vi) revenue generating options;
69.16 	(7) serve as temporary trustee of school trust lands for school trust lands subject to 
69.17 	proposed or active eminent domain proceedings;
69.18 	(8) serve as temporary trustee of school trust lands pursuant to section 94.342, subdivision 
69.19 	5;
69.20 	(5) propose (9) submit to the Legislative Permanent School Fund Commission for review 
69.21 	an annual budget and management plan for the director that includes proposed legislative 
69.22 	changes that will improve the asset allocation of the school trust lands;
69.23 	(6) (10) develop and implement a ten-year strategic plan and a 25-year framework for 
69.24 	management of school trust lands, in conjunction with the commissioner of natural resources, 
69.25 	that is updated every five years and implemented by the commissioner, with goals to:
69.26 	(i) retain core real estate assets;
69.27 	(ii) increase the value of the real estate assets and the cash flow from those assets;
69.28 	(iii) rebalance the portfolio in assets with high performance potential and the strategic 
69.29 	disposal of selected assets;
69.30 	(iv) establish priorities for management actions;
70.1 	(v) balance revenue enhancement and resource stewardship; and
70.2 	(vi) advance strategies on school trust lands to capitalize on ecosystem services markets;
70.3 	and
70.4 	(7) submit to the Legislative Permanent School Fund Commission for review an annual 
70.5 	budget and management plan for the director; and
70.6 	(8) (11) keep the beneficiaries, governor, legislature, and the public informed about the 
70.7 	work of the director by reporting to the Legislative Permanent School Fund Commission 
70.8 	in a public meeting at least once during each calendar quarter.
70.9 	(b) In carrying out the duties under paragraph (a), the school trust lands director shall 
70.10 	have the authority to may:
70.11 	(1) direct and control money appropriated to the director;
70.12 	(2) establish job descriptions and employ up to five employees in the unclassified service,
70.13 	staff within the limitations of money appropriated to the director;
70.14 	(3) enter into interdepartmental agreements with any other state agency;
70.15 	(4) enter into joint powers agreements under chapter 471;
70.16 	(5) evaluate and initiate real estate development projects on school trust lands in 
70.17 	conjunction with the commissioner of natural resources and with the advice of the Legislative 
70.18 	Permanent School Fund Commission in order to generate long-term economic return to the 
70.19 	permanent school fund; and
70.20 	(6) serve as temporary trustee of school trust land for school trust lands subject to 
70.21 	proposed or active eminent domain proceedings; and
70.22 	(7) (6) submit recommendations on strategies for school trust land leases, sales, or 
70.23 	exchanges to the commissioner of natural resources and the Legislative Permanent School 
70.24 	Fund Commission.

70.25 	Sec. 65. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 282.08, is amended to read:
70.26 	282.08 APPORTIONMENT OF PROCEEDS TO TAXING DISTRICTS.
70.27 	The net proceeds from the sale or rental of any parcel of forfeited land, or from the sale 
70.28 	of products from the forfeited land, must be apportioned by the county auditor to the taxing 
70.29 	districts interested in the land, as follows:
70.30 	(1) the portion required to pay any amounts included in the appraised value under section 
70.31 	282.01, subdivision 3, as representing increased value due to any public improvement made 
71.1 	after forfeiture of the parcel to the state, but not exceeding the amount certified by the 
71.2 	appropriate governmental authority must be apportioned to the governmental subdivision 
71.3 	entitled to it;
71.4 	(2) the portion required to pay any amount included in the appraised value under section 
71.5 	282.019, subdivision 5, representing increased value due to response actions taken after 
71.6 	forfeiture of the parcel to the state, but not exceeding the amount of expenses certified by 
71.7 	the Pollution Control Agency or the commissioner of agriculture, must be apportioned to 
71.8 	the agency or the commissioner of agriculture and deposited in the fund from which the 
71.9 	expenses were paid;
71.10 	(3) the portion of the remainder required to discharge any special assessment chargeable 
71.11 	against the parcel for drainage or other purpose whether due or deferred at the time of 
71.12 	forfeiture, must be apportioned to the governmental subdivision entitled to it; and
71.13 	(4) any balance must be apportioned as follows:
71.14 	(i) The county board may annually by resolution set aside no more than 30 percent of 
71.15 	the receipts remaining to be used for forest development on tax-forfeited land and dedicated 
71.16 	memorial forests, to be expended under the supervision of the county board. It must be 
71.17 	expended only on projects improving the health and management of the forest resource.
71.18 	(ii) The county board may annually by resolution set aside no more than 20 percent of 
71.19 	the receipts remaining to be used for the acquisition and maintenance of county parks or 
71.20 	recreational areas as defined in sections 398.31 to 398.36, to be expended under the 
71.21 	supervision of the county board.
71.22 	(iii) The county board may by resolution set aside up to 100 percent of the receipts 
71.23 	remaining to be used:
71.24 	(A) according to section 282.09, subdivision 2;
71.25 	(B) for remediating contamination at tax-forfeited properties; or
71.26 	(C) for correcting blighted conditions at tax-forfeited properties.
71.27 	An election made under this item is effective for a minimum of five years, unless the county 
71.28 	board specifies a shorter duration.
71.29 	(iv) Any balance remaining must be apportioned as follows: county, 40 percent; town 
71.30 	or city, 20 percent; and school district, 40 percent, provided, however, that in unorganized 
71.31 	territory that portion which would have accrued to the township must be administered by 
71.32 	the county board of commissioners.

72.1 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

72.2 	Sec. 66. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 297A.94, is amended to read:
72.3 	297A.94 DEPOSIT OF REVENUES.
72.4 	(a) Except as provided in this section, the commissioner shall deposit the revenues, 
72.5 	including interest and penalties, derived from the taxes imposed by this chapter in the state 
72.6 	treasury and credit them to the general fund.
72.7 	(b) The commissioner shall deposit taxes in the Minnesota agricultural and economic 
72.8 	account in the special revenue fund if:
72.9 	(1) the taxes are derived from sales and use of property and services purchased for the 
72.10 	construction and operation of an agricultural resource project; and
72.11 	(2) the purchase was made on or after the date on which a conditional commitment was 
72.12 	made for a loan guaranty for the project under section 41A.04, subdivision 3.
72.13 	The commissioner of management and budget shall certify to the commissioner the date on 
72.14 	which the project received the conditional commitment. The amount deposited in the loan 
72.15 	guaranty account must be reduced by any refunds and by the costs incurred by the Department 
72.16 	of Revenue to administer and enforce the assessment and collection of the taxes.
72.17 	(c) The commissioner shall deposit the revenues, including interest and penalties, derived 
72.18 	from the taxes imposed on sales and purchases included in section 297A.61, subdivision 3, 
72.19 	paragraph (g), clauses (1) and (4), in the state treasury, and credit them as follows:
72.20 	(1) first to the general obligation special tax bond debt service account in each fiscal 
72.21 	year the amount required by section 16A.661, subdivision 3, paragraph (b); and
72.22 	(2) after the requirements of clause (1) have been met, the balance to the general fund.
72.23 	(d) Beginning with sales taxes remitted after July 1, 2017, the commissioner shall deposit 
72.24 	in the state treasury the revenues collected under section 297A.64, subdivision 1, including 
72.25 	interest and penalties and minus refunds, and credit them to the highway user tax distribution 
72.26 	fund.
72.27 	(e) The commissioner shall deposit the revenues, including interest and penalties, 
72.28 	collected under section 297A.64, subdivision 5, in the state treasury and credit them to the 
72.29 	general fund. By July 15 of each year the commissioner shall transfer to the highway user 
72.30 	tax distribution fund an amount equal to the excess fees collected under section 297A.64, 
72.31 	subdivision 5, for the previous calendar year.
73.1 	(f) Beginning with sales taxes remitted after July 1, 2017, in conjunction with the deposit 
73.2 	of revenues under paragraph (d), the commissioner shall deposit into the state treasury and 
73.3 	credit to the highway user tax distribution fund an amount equal to the estimated revenues 
73.4 	derived from the tax rate imposed under section 297A.62, subdivision 1, on the lease or 
73.5 	rental for not more than 28 days of rental motor vehicles subject to section 297A.64. The 
73.6 	commissioner shall estimate the amount of sales tax revenue deposited under this paragraph 
73.7 	based on the amount of revenue deposited under paragraph (d).
73.8 	(g) Starting after July 1, 2017, the commissioner shall deposit an amount of the 
73.9 	remittances monthly into the state treasury and credit them to the highway user tax 
73.10 	distribution fund as a portion of the estimated amount of taxes collected from the sale and 
73.11 	purchase of motor vehicle repair parts in that month. For the remittances between July 1, 
73.12 	2017, and June 30, 2019, the monthly deposit amount is $2,628,000. For remittances in 
73.13 	each subsequent fiscal year, the monthly deposit amount is $12,137,000. For purposes of 
73.14 	this paragraph, "motor vehicle" has the meaning given in section 297B.01, subdivision 11, 
73.15 	and "motor vehicle repair and replacement parts" includes (i) all parts, tires, accessories, 
73.16 	and equipment incorporated into or affixed to the motor vehicle as part of the motor vehicle 
73.17 	maintenance and repair, and (ii) paint, oil, and other fluids that remain on or in the motor 
73.18 	vehicle as part of the motor vehicle maintenance or repair. For purposes of this paragraph, 
73.19 	"tire" means any tire of the type used on highway vehicles, if wholly or partially made of 
73.20 	rubber and if marked according to federal regulations for highway use.
73.21 	(h) 72.43 percent of the revenues, including interest and penalties, transmitted to the 
73.22 	commissioner under section 297A.65, must be deposited by the commissioner in the state 
73.23 	treasury as follows:
73.24 	(1) 50 percent of the receipts must be deposited in the heritage enhancement account in 
73.25 	the game and fish fund, and may be spent only on activities that improve, enhance, or protect 
73.26 	fish and wildlife resources, including conservation, restoration, and enhancement of land, 
73.27 	water, and other natural resources of the state;
73.28 	(2) 22.5 percent of the receipts must be deposited in the natural resources fund, and may 
73.29 	be spent only for state parks and trails;
73.30 	(3) 22.5 percent of the receipts must be deposited in the natural resources fund, and may 
73.31 	be spent only on metropolitan park and trail grants;
73.32 	(4) three percent of the receipts must be deposited in the natural resources fund, and 
73.33 	may be spent only on local trail grants; and
74.1 	(5) two percent of the receipts must be deposited in the natural resources fund, and may 
74.2 	be spent only for the Minnesota Zoological Garden, the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory, 
74.3 	and the Duluth Zoo.
74.4 	(i) The revenue dedicated under paragraph (h) may not be used as a substitute for 
74.5 	traditional sources of funding for the purposes specified, but the dedicated revenue shall 
74.6 	supplement traditional sources of funding for those purposes. Land acquired with money 
74.7 	deposited in the game and fish fund under paragraph (h) must be open to public hunting 
74.8 	and fishing during the open season, except that in aquatic management areas or on lands 
74.9 	where angling easements have been acquired, fishing may be prohibited during certain times 
74.10 	of the year and hunting may be prohibited. At least 87 percent of the money deposited in 
74.11 	the game and fish fund for improvement, enhancement, or protection of fish and wildlife 
74.12 	resources under paragraph (h) must be allocated for field operations.
74.13 	(j) The commissioner must deposit the revenues, including interest and penalties minus 
74.14 	any refunds, derived from the sale of items regulated under section 624.20, subdivision 1, 
74.15 	that may be sold to persons 18 years old or older and that are not prohibited from use by 
74.16 	the general public under section 624.21, in the state treasury and credit:
74.17 	(1) 25 percent to the volunteer fire assistance grant account established under section 
74.18 	88.068;
74.19 	(2) 25 percent to the fire safety account established under section 297I.06, subdivision 
74.20 	3; and
74.21 	(3) the remainder to the general fund.
74.22 	For purposes of this paragraph, the percentage of total sales and use tax revenue derived 
74.23 	from the sale of items regulated under section 624.20, subdivision 1, that are allowed to be 
74.24 	sold to persons 18 years old or older and are not prohibited from use by the general public 
74.25 	under section 624.21, is a set percentage of the total sales and use tax revenues collected in 
74.26 	the state, with the percentage determined under Laws 2017, First Special Session chapter 
74.27 	1, article 3, section 39.
74.28 	(k) The revenues deposited under paragraphs (a) to (j) do not include the revenues, 
74.29 	including interest and penalties, generated by the sales tax imposed under section 297A.62, 
74.30 	subdivision 1a, which must be deposited as provided under the Minnesota Constitution, 
74.31 	article XI, section 15.
75.1 	(l) One percent of the revenues, including interest and penalties, transmitted to the 
75.2 	commissioner under section 297A.65, must be deposited in the state treasury and credited 
75.3 	to the events promotion account under section 116U.55, subdivision 3.

75.4 	Sec. 67. CONTINUATION OF OTHER WATER APPROPRIATION PERMITS.
 75.5 	Prior to additional rulemaking or legislative action in response to the findings and 
75.6 	recommendations submitted pursuant to section 69, the commissioner of natural resources 
75.7 	shall not reduce appropriations under a groundwater appropriations permit, terminate 
75.8 	groundwater appropriations authorized by a permit, or decline to renew a groundwater 
75.9 	appropriations permit where:
75.10 	(1) the permit was in effect as of December 31, 2021;
75.11 	(2) the permit authorized appropriation of groundwater from a site located wholly or 
75.12 	partially within a five-mile radius of White Bear Lake;
75.13 	(3) the permittee is in compliance with applicable permit terms; and
75.14 	(4) the permittee is not a municipality.

75.15 	Sec. 68. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES REGISTRATION SYSTEM.
 75.16 		Subdivision 1.Definitions. (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have 
75.17 	the meanings given.
75.18 	(b) "Commissioner" means the commissioner of natural resources.
75.19 	(c) "DNR" means the Department of Natural Resources.
75.20 	(d) "DNR registration system" means the current Department of Natural Resources 
75.21 	system for boat, all-terrain vehicle, and snowmobile registrations.
75.22 		Subd. 2.Request for proposals; scoring preference. When the commissioner issues 
75.23 	a request for proposals to replace the DNR registration system and scores the responses to 
75.24 	the request for proposals, the commissioner may give a preference to a software vendor that 
75.25 	currently provides vehicle registration software to the state in an amount commensurate 
75.26 	with the commissioner's assessments of the benefits of using an existing software vendor.
75.27 		Subd. 3.Report to legislature. Within 45 days after a vendor has been selected to 
75.28 	provide software to replace the DNR registration system, the commissioner must report to 
75.29 	the chairs and ranking minority members of the legislative committees with jurisdiction 
75.30 	over transportation policy and finance and natural resources policy and finance. At a 
75.31 	minimum, the commissioner must include in the report:
76.1 	(1) the names of all vendors who submitted a proposal;
76.2 	(2) which vendor was selected;
76.3 	(3) the estimated timeline for implementing the new registration system;
76.4 	(4) if a preference was given as described in subdivision 2, what the preference was and 
76.5 	how the commissioner arrived at that number; and
76.6 	(5) if a software vendor that currently provides vehicle registration software to the state 
76.7 	submitted a proposal and that vendor was not selected, an explanation of why that vendor 
76.8 	was not selected.

76.9 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

76.10 	Sec. 69. ENSURING SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER LEVELS IN WHITE 
76.11 	BEAR LAKE AND RELATED AQUIFERS.
 76.12 	The commissioner of natural resources, in cooperation with the Minnesota Department 
76.13 	of Health, the Metropolitan Council, and representatives of east metropolitan area 
76.14 	municipalities, must explore available options for supplying east metropolitan area 
76.15 	communities with safe drinking water in a manner that allows municipal growth while 
76.16 	simultaneously ensuring the sustainability and quality of the state's water resources in and 
76.17 	around White Bear Lake and neighboring aquifers. By October 1, 2023, the commissioner 
76.18 	must report findings and recommendations to the chairs and ranking minority members of 
76.19 	the legislative committees and divisions with jurisdiction over environment and natural 
76.20 	resources.

76.21 	Sec. 70. FACILITATING SAFE TRAVEL ON COUNTY STATE-AID HIGHWAY 
76.22 	13 IN MURRAY COUNTY.
 76.23 		Subdivision 1.Requirements. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
76.24 	commissioner of natural resources must do all of the following to ensure that the portion 
76.25 	of County State-Aid Highway 13 in Murray County that extends over Lake Shetek between 
76.26 	170th Avenue and Lakeview Drive can be widened to a sufficient width to ensure traveler 
76.27 	safety:
76.28 	(1) issue any permits applied for by the county as part of a project to widen the highway; 
76.29 	and
77.1 	(2) convey to the county any right-of-way, easement, or other interest in real property 
77.2 	administered by the Department of Natural Resources that is necessary to facilitate the 
77.3 	widening.
77.4 		Subd. 2.Sufficient width. For purposes of subdivision 1, "sufficient width to ensure 
77.5 	traveler safety" means a width of at least 70 feet, including room for two lanes of vehicular 
77.6 	traffic, a shoulder on each side, and a shared-use path on each side to safely accommodate 
77.7 	bicycle and pedestrian transportation. Any riprap needed to ensure the structural integrity 
77.8 	of the widened highway must be in addition to the 70-foot width required by this subdivision.
77.9 		Subd. 3.Reporting. The commissioner of natural resources must immediately report 
77.10 	to the chairs and ranking minority members of the house of representatives and senate 
77.11 	committees and divisions with jurisdiction over environment and natural resources if the 
77.12 	commissioner denies any permit or other request made by Murray County in connection 
77.13 	with the widening described in this section. A report under this subdivision must explain 
77.14 	the reason for the denial, including the statute or rule that prohibits the commissioner from 
77.15 	granting the permit or other request. A policy decision by the Department of Natural 
77.16 	Resources that the lake is more important than protecting the lives of travelers on the highway 
77.17 	does not constitute a sufficient explanation for a decision to deny a permit under this 
77.18 	subdivision.

77.19 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day after the governing body of 
77.20 	Murray County and its chief clerical officer comply with the requirements of Minnesota 
77.21 	Statutes, section 645.021, subdivisions 2 and 3.

77.22 	Sec. 71. FILLING OF CERTAIN POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY AIR PERMIT 
77.23 	PROGRAM VACANCIES.
 77.24 		Subdivision 1.Duty to fill certain positions. The commissioner of the Pollution Control 
77.25 	Agency must do the following for each position in the agency's air permit program that has 
77.26 	been open for at least one year as of the effective date of this section:
77.27 	(1) within 60 days of the effective date of this section, post job opening information for 
77.28 	each position in the manner normally used by the commissioner to post job openings;
77.29 	(2) within 90 days of the effective date of this section, conduct interviews to fill each 
77.30 	position; and
77.31 	(3) within 120 days of the effective date of this section, complete hiring to fill each 
77.32 	position.
78.1 		Subd. 2.Report. By January 15, 2024, the commissioner must submit a report to the 
78.2 	chairs and ranking minority members of the house of representatives and senate committees 
78.3 	and divisions with jurisdiction over environment and natural resources on efforts to comply 
78.4 	with this section. The report must include the following:
78.5 	(1) a summary of the commissioner's efforts to comply with each clause in subdivision 
78.6 	1; and
78.7 	(2) for any position that receives less than five applicants, an explanation of the need 
78.8 	for each of the job requirements included in the job posting.

78.9 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

78.10 	Sec. 72. INTERIM PROVISIONS.
 78.11 	(a) From the effective date of this section until the rules under section 77 are adopted, 
78.12 	to the extent allowable under the federal Clean Water Act or other federal laws, this section 
78.13 	applies to discharges from facilities that process sugar beets outside the Lake Superior basin.
78.14 	(b) If a whole effluent toxicity test, as defined under Minnesota Rules, part 7050.0218, 
78.15 	subpart 3, item AAA, is performed on the effluent of a point source discharger that is a 
78.16 	facility that processes sugar beets and results in less than 50 percent mortality of the test 
78.17 	organisms or if a demonstration is provided under Minnesota Rules, part 7052.0210, subpart 
78.18 	1, that 0.3 acute toxic units can be met at the edge of an approved acute mixing zone, the 
78.19 	effluent must not be considered acutely toxic or lethal to aquatic organisms unless the 
78.20 	commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency finds that the test species do not represent 
78.21 	sensitive organisms in the affected surface water body or the whole effluent toxicity test 
78.22 	was performed on a sample not representative of the effluent quality.
78.23 	(c) The commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency must establish whole effluent 
78.24 	toxicity mixing zones and whole effluent toxicity water-quality-based effluent limitations 
78.25 	and permit conditions for facilities that process sugar beets according to Minnesota Rules, 
78.26 	parts 7052.0210, subparts 1 and 2, and 7052.0240.
78.27 	(d) The antibacksliding provisions of Minnesota Rules, part 7001.1080, subpart 9, do 
78.28 	not apply to new or revised permit conditions established under paragraph (c).

78.29 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

79.1 	Sec. 73. REGISTRATION DECAL FORMAT TRANSITION.
 79.2 	Separately displaying registration numbers is not required when a larger-format 
79.3 	registration decal as provided under Minnesota Statutes, section 84.82, subdivision 2, is 
79.4 	displayed according to Minnesota Statutes, section 84.82, subdivision 3b. Snowmobiles 
79.5 	displaying valid but older smaller-format registration decals must display the separate 
79.6 	registration numbers. Persons may obtain duplicate registration decals in the new, larger 
79.7 	format, when available, without being required to display the separate registration numbers.

79.8 	Sec. 74. REQUIRED RULEMAKING.
 79.9 	(a) The commissioner of natural resources must amend Minnesota Rules as follows:
79.10 	(1) part 6100.5000, subpart 1, by striking the last sentence and inserting "The registration 
79.11 	number remains the same if renewed by July 1 following the expiration date.";
79.12 	(2) part 6100.5700, subpart 1, item C, by striking the reference to registration numbers; 
79.13 	and
79.14 	(3) part 6230.0250, subpart 10, item A, subitem (2), by changing the word "hunter" to 
79.15 	"person".
79.16 	(b) The commissioner may use the good-cause exemption under Minnesota Statutes, 
79.17 	section 14.388, subdivision 1, clause (3), to adopt rules under this section, and Minnesota 
79.18 	Statutes, section 14.386, does not apply except as provided under Minnesota Statutes, section 
79.19 	14.388.

79.20 	Sec. 75. STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN REVISIONS.
 79.21 	(a) The commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency must seek approval from the 
79.22 	federal Environmental Protection Agency for revisions to the state's federal Clean Air Act 
79.23 	state implementation plan so that under the revised plan, the Pollution Control Agency is 
79.24 	prohibited from applying a national or state ambient air quality standard in a permit issued 
79.25 	solely to authorize operations to continue at an existing facility with unmodified emissions 
79.26 	levels. Nothing in this section must be construed to require the commissioner to apply for 
79.27 	a revision that would prohibit the agency from applying a national or state ambient air 
79.28 	quality standard in a permit that authorizes an increase in emissions due to construction of 
79.29 	a new facility or in a permit that authorizes changes to existing facilities that result in a 
79.30 	significant net emissions increase of a regulated NSR pollutant, as defined in Code of Federal 
79.31 	Regulations, title 40, section 52.21(b)(50).
80.1 	(b) The commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency must report quarterly to the chairs 
80.2 	and ranking minority members of the house of representatives and senate committees and 
80.3 	divisions with jurisdiction over environment and natural resources policy on the status of 
80.4 	efforts to implement paragraph (a) until the revisions required by paragraph (a) have been 
80.5 	either approved or denied.

80.6 	Sec. 76. WHOLE EFFLUENT TOXICITY RULEMAKING FOR FACILITIES 
80.7 	THAT PROCESS SUGAR BEETS.
 80.8 	(a) By January 31, 2023, the commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency must adopt 
80.9 	rules on:
80.10 	(1) evaluating and applying whole effluent toxicity (WET) as water-quality-based effluent 
80.11 	limitations and permit conditions for discharges from facilities that process sugar beets that 
80.12 	are located outside the Lake Superior basin; and
80.13 	(2) the applicability and standards for acute and chronic mixing zones at those facilities.
80.14 	(b) Rules adopted under this section must be substantially identical to Minnesota Rules, 
80.15 	parts 7052.0210, subparts 1 and 2, and 7052.0240, so that, to the greatest extent possible, 
80.16 	facilities that process sugar beets in all parts of the state are subject to the same mixing 
80.17 	zones requirements and acute and chronic WET requirements for establishing permit 
80.18 	conditions.

80.19 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

80.20 	Sec. 77. PFAS MONITORING PLAN EXPENSES.
 80.21 	Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner of the Pollution Control 
80.22 	Agency shall not require a person, facility, or other entity to monitor PFAS as part of its 
80.23 	March 2022 PFAS monitoring plan unless the monitoring can be done at no cost to the 
80.24 	person, facility, or other entity or unless the commissioner agrees to reimburse the person, 
80.25 	facility, or other entity for all costs of the monitoring. Nothing in this section shall be 
80.26 	construed to prohibit:
80.27 	(1) voluntary compliance with an agency request to monitor PFAS;
80.28 	(2) compliance with a PFAS monitoring requirement that is not part of the March 2022 
80.29 	PFAS monitoring plan; or
80.30 	(3) a PFAS monitoring requirement imposed as a result of a known release or threatened 
80.31 	release of PFAS from a facility.

81.1 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

81.2 	Sec. 78. RED RIVER OF THE NORTH; ADAPTIVE PHOSPHORUS 
81.3 	MANAGEMENT FEASIBILITY ASSESSMENT.
 81.4 		Subdivision 1.Assessment contents. The Red River Basin Commission must facilitate 
81.5 	the development of a feasibility assessment of adaptive phosphorus management for the 
81.6 	Red River of the North. The commission may contract with outside experts or academic 
81.7 	institutions in developing the assessment. The assessment:
81.8 	(1) must address applicable water quality targets for phosphorous loading;
81.9 	(2) must include an allocation of phosphorus between point and nonpoint sources;
81.10 	(3) must identify cost-effective nutrient reduction implementation strategies; and
81.11 	(4) may include other state water quality goals and objectives.
81.12 		Subd. 2.Advisory group. In developing the assessment, the Red River Basin Commission 
81.13 	shall work in cooperation with an advisory group consisting of representatives from the 
81.14 	Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center, the Red River Watershed Management 
81.15 	Board, other agricultural groups, soil and water conservation districts, watershed districts, 
81.16 	cities, and other Minnesota organizations represented on the board of directors of the Red 
81.17 	River Basin Commission. The Red River Basin Commission may also work with 
81.18 	representatives from similar organizations from North Dakota, South Dakota, and Manitoba.
81.19 		Subd. 3.Reporting. By June 30, 2024, the Red River Basin Commission must submit 
81.20 	the final assessment to the chairs and ranking minority members of the house of 
81.21 	representatives and senate committees with jurisdiction over agriculture policy and finance. 
81.22 	By December 31 of each year prior to the submission of the final assessment, the commission 
81.23 	must submit a progress report on the assessment's development to these same recipients.

81.24 	Sec. 79. REPEALER.
 81.25 	(a) Minnesota Statutes 2020, sections 97B.318; and 97C.515, subdivisions 4 and 5, are 
81.26 	repealed.
81.27 	(b) Minnesota Rules, parts 6100.5000, subparts 3, 4, and 5; 6100.5700, subpart 4; and 
81.28 	6232.0350, are repealed.
81.29 	(c) Laws 2013, chapter 121, section 53, is repealed.

82.1 	ARTICLE 3
82.2 	STATE LANDS

82.3 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2021 Supplement, section 84.63, is amended to read:
82.4 	84.63 CONVEYING INTERESTS IN LANDS TO STATE, FEDERAL, AND 
82.5 	TRIBAL GOVERNMENTS.
82.6 	(a) Notwithstanding any existing law to the contrary, the commissioner of natural 
82.7 	resources is hereby authorized on behalf of the state to convey to the United States, to a 
82.8 	federally recognized Indian Tribe, or to the state of Minnesota or any of its subdivisions, 
82.9 	upon state-owned lands under the administration of the commissioner of natural resources, 
82.10 	permanent or temporary easements for specified periods or otherwise for trails, highways, 
82.11 	roads including limitation of right of access from the lands to adjacent highways and roads, 
82.12 	flowage for development of fish and game resources, stream protection, flood control, and 
82.13 	necessary appurtenances thereto, such conveyances to be made upon such terms and 
82.14 	conditions including provision for reversion in the event of non-user as the commissioner 
82.15 	of natural resources may determine.
82.16 	(b) In addition to the fee for the market value of the easement, the commissioner of 
82.17 	natural resources shall assess the applicant the following fees:
82.18 	(1) an application fee of $2,000 to cover reasonable costs for reviewing the application 
82.19 	and preparing the easement; and
82.20 	(2) a monitoring fee to cover the projected reasonable costs for monitoring the 
82.21 	construction of the improvement for which the easement was conveyed and preparing special 
82.22 	terms and conditions for the easement. The commissioner must give the applicant an estimate 
82.23 	of the monitoring fee before the applicant submits the fee.
82.24 	(c) The applicant shall pay these fees to the commissioner of natural resources. The 
82.25 	commissioner shall not issue the easement until the applicant has paid in full the application 
82.26 	fee, the monitoring fee, and the market value payment for the easement.
82.27 	(d) Upon completion of construction of the improvement for which the easement was 
82.28 	conveyed, the commissioner shall refund the unobligated balance from the monitoring fee 
82.29 	revenue. The commissioner shall not return the application fee, even if the application is 
82.30 	withdrawn or denied.
82.31 	(e) Money received under paragraph (b) must be deposited in the land management 
82.32 	account in the natural resources fund and is appropriated to the commissioner of natural 
82.33 	resources to cover the reasonable costs incurred for issuing and monitoring easements.
83.1 	(f) A county or joint county regional railroad authority is exempt from all fees specified 
83.2 	under this section for trail easements on state-owned land.
83.3 	(g) In addition to fees specified in this section, the applicant must reimburse the state 
83.4 	for costs incurred for cultural resources review, monitoring, or other services provided by 
83.5 	the Minnesota Historical Society under contract with the commissioner of natural resources 
83.6 	or the State Historic Preservation Office of the Department of Administration in connection 
83.7 	with the easement application, preparing the easement terms, or constructing the trail, 
83.8 	highway, road, or other improvements.
83.9 	(h) Notwithstanding paragraphs (a) to (g), the commissioner of natural resources may 
83.10 	elect to assume the application fee under paragraph (b), clause (1), and waive or assume 
83.11 	some or all of the remaining fees and costs imposed under this section if the commissioner 
83.12 	determines that issuing the easement will benefit the state's land management interests.

83.13 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2021 Supplement, section 84.631, is amended to read:
83.14 	84.631 ROAD EASEMENTS ACROSS STATE LANDS.
83.15 	(a) Except as provided in section 85.015, subdivision 1b, the commissioner of natural 
83.16 	resources, on behalf of the state, may convey a road easement across state land under the 
83.17 	commissioner's jurisdiction to a private person requesting an easement for access to property 
83.18 	owned by the person only if the following requirements are met: (1) there are no reasonable 
83.19 	alternatives to obtain access to the property; and (2) the exercise of the easement will not 
83.20 	cause significant adverse environmental or natural resource management impacts.
83.21 	(b) The commissioner shall:
83.22 	(1) require the applicant to pay the market value of the easement;
83.23 	(2) limit the easement term to 50 years if the road easement is across school trust land;
83.24 	(3) provide that the easement reverts to the state in the event of nonuse; and
83.25 	(4) impose other terms and conditions of use as necessary and appropriate under the 
83.26 	circumstances.
83.27 	(c) An applicant shall submit an application fee of $2,000 with each application for a 
83.28 	road easement across state land. The application fee is nonrefundable, even if the application 
83.29 	is withdrawn or denied.
83.30 	(d) In addition to the payment for the market value of the easement and the application 
83.31 	fee, the commissioner of natural resources shall assess the applicant a monitoring fee to 
83.32 	cover the projected reasonable costs for monitoring the construction of the road and preparing 
84.1 	special terms and conditions for the easement. The commissioner must give the applicant 
84.2 	an estimate of the monitoring fee before the applicant submits the fee. The applicant shall 
84.3 	pay the application and monitoring fees to the commissioner of natural resources. The 
84.4 	commissioner shall not issue the easement until the applicant has paid in full the application 
84.5 	fee, the monitoring fee, and the market value payment for the easement.
84.6 	(e) Upon completion of construction of the road, the commissioner shall refund the 
84.7 	unobligated balance from the monitoring fee revenue.
84.8 	(f) Fees collected under paragraphs (c) and (d) must be credited to the land management 
84.9 	account in the natural resources fund and are appropriated to the commissioner of natural 
84.10 	resources to cover the reasonable costs incurred under this section.
84.11 	(g) In addition to fees specified in this section, the applicant must reimburse the state 
84.12 	for costs incurred for cultural resources review, monitoring, or other services provided by 
84.13 	the Minnesota Historical Society under contract with the commissioner of natural resources 
84.14 	or the State Historic Preservation Office of the Department of Administration in connection 
84.15 	with the easement application, preparing the easement terms, or constructing the road.
84.16 	(h) Notwithstanding paragraphs (a) to (g), the commissioner of natural resources may 
84.17 	elect to assume the application fee under paragraph (c) and waive or assume some or all of 
84.18 	the remaining fees and costs imposed under this section if the commissioner determines 
84.19 	that issuing the easement will benefit the state's land management interests.

84.20 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 84.632, is amended to read:
84.21 	84.632 CONVEYANCE OF UNNEEDED STATE EASEMENTS.
84.22 	(a) Notwithstanding section 92.45, the commissioner of natural resources may, in the 
84.23 	name of the state, release all or part of an easement acquired by the state upon application 
84.24 	of a landowner whose property is burdened with the easement if the easement is not needed 
84.25 	for state purposes.
84.26 	(b) All or part of an easement may be released by payment of the market value of the 
84.27 	easement. The release must be in a form approved by the attorney general.
84.28 	(c) Money received under paragraph (b) must be credited to the account from which 
84.29 	money was expended for purchase of the easement. If there is no specific account, the money 
84.30 	must be credited to the land acquisition account established in section 94.165.
84.31 	(d) In addition to payment under paragraph (b), the commissioner of natural resources 
84.32 	shall assess a landowner who applies for a release under this section an application fee of 
85.1 	$2,000 for reviewing the application and preparing the release of easement. The applicant 
85.2 	shall pay the application fee to the commissioner of natural resources. The commissioner 
85.3 	shall not issue the release of easement until the applicant has paid the application fee in full. 
85.4 	The commissioner shall not return the application fee, even if the application is withdrawn 
85.5 	or denied.
85.6 	(e) Money received under paragraph (d) must be credited to the land management account 
85.7 	in the natural resources fund and is appropriated to the commissioner of natural resources 
85.8 	to cover the reasonable costs incurred under this section.
85.9 	(f) Notwithstanding paragraphs (a) to (e), the commissioner of natural resources may 
85.10 	elect to assume the application fee under paragraph (d) and waive or assume some or all of 
85.11 	the remaining fees and costs imposed under this section if the commissioner determines 
85.12 	that issuing the easement release will benefit the state's land management interests.

85.13 	Sec. 4. Minnesota Statutes 2021 Supplement, section 92.502, is amended to read:
85.14 	92.502 LEASING TAX-FORFEITED AND STATE LANDS.
85.15 	(a) Notwithstanding section 282.04 or other law to the contrary, St. Louis County may 
85.16 	enter a 30-year lease of tax-forfeited land for a wind energy project.
85.17 	(b) The commissioner of natural resources may enter a 30-year lease of land administered 
85.18 	by the commissioner for a wind energy project.
85.19 	(c) The commissioner of natural resources may enter a 30-year lease of land administered 
85.20 	by the commissioner for recreational trails and or facilities. The commissioner may assess 
85.21 	the lease applicant a monitoring fee to cover the projected reasonable costs of monitoring 
85.22 	construction of the recreational trail or facility and preparing special terms and conditions 
85.23 	of the license to ensure proper construction. The commissioner must give the applicant an 
85.24 	estimate of the monitoring fee before the applicant is required to submit the fee. Upon 
85.25 	completion of construction of the trail or facility, the commissioner must refund the 
85.26 	unobligated balance from the monitoring fee revenue.
85.27 	(d) Notwithstanding section 282.04 or other law to the contrary, Lake and St. Louis 
85.28 	Counties may enter into 30-year leases of tax-forfeited land for recreational trails and 
85.29 	facilities.

85.30 	Sec. 5. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 282.04, subdivision 1, is amended to read:
85.31 		Subdivision 1.Timber sales; land leases and uses. (a) The county auditor, with terms 
85.32 	and conditions set by the county board, may sell timber upon any tract that may be approved 
86.1 	by the natural resources commissioner. The sale of timber shall be made for cash at not less 
86.2 	than the appraised value determined by the county board to the highest bidder after not less 
86.3 	than one week's published notice in an official paper within the county. Any timber offered 
86.4 	at the public sale and not sold may thereafter be sold at private sale by the county auditor 
86.5 	at not less than the appraised value thereof, until the time as the county board may withdraw 
86.6 	the timber from sale. The appraised value of the timber and the forestry practices to be 
86.7 	followed in the cutting of said timber shall be approved by the commissioner of natural 
86.8 	resources.
86.9 	(b) Payment of the full sale price of all timber sold on tax-forfeited lands shall be made 
86.10 	in cash at the time of the timber sale, except in the case of oral or sealed bid auction sales, 
86.11 	the down payment shall be no less than 15 percent of the appraised value, and the balance 
86.12 	shall be paid prior to entry. In the case of auction sales that are partitioned and sold as a 
86.13 	single sale with predetermined cutting blocks, the down payment shall be no less than 15 
86.14 	percent of the appraised price of the entire timber sale which may be held until the satisfactory 
86.15 	completion of the sale or applied in whole or in part to the final cutting block. The value of 
86.16 	each separate block must be paid in full before any cutting may begin in that block. With 
86.17 	the permission of the county contract administrator the purchaser may enter unpaid blocks 
86.18 	and cut necessary timber incidental to developing logging roads as may be needed to log 
86.19 	other blocks provided that no timber may be removed from an unpaid block until separately 
86.20 	scaled and paid for. If payment is provided as specified in this paragraph as security under 
86.21 	paragraph (a) and no cutting has taken place on the contract, the county auditor may credit 
86.22 	the security provided, less any down payment required for an auction sale under this 
86.23 	paragraph, to any other contract issued to the contract holder by the county under this chapter 
86.24 	to which the contract holder requests in writing that it be credited, provided the request and 
86.25 	transfer is made within the same calendar year as the security was received.
86.26 	(c) The county board may sell any timber, including biomass, as appraised or scaled. 
86.27 	Any parcels of land from which timber is to be sold by scale of cut products shall be so 
86.28 	designated in the published notice of sale under paragraph (a), in which case the notice shall 
86.29 	contain a description of the parcels, a statement of the estimated quantity of each species 
86.30 	of timber, and the appraised price of each species of timber for 1,000 feet, per cord or per 
86.31 	piece, as the case may be. In those cases any bids offered over and above the appraised 
86.32 	prices shall be by percentage, the percent bid to be added to the appraised price of each of 
86.33 	the different species of timber advertised on the land. The purchaser of timber from the 
86.34 	parcels shall pay in cash at the time of sale at the rate bid for all of the timber shown in the 
86.35 	notice of sale as estimated to be standing on the land, and in addition shall pay at the same 
87.1 	rate for any additional amounts which the final scale shows to have been cut or was available 
87.2 	for cutting on the land at the time of sale under the terms of the sale. Where the final scale 
87.3 	of cut products shows that less timber was cut or was available for cutting under terms of 
87.4 	the sale than was originally paid for, the excess payment shall be refunded from the forfeited 
87.5 	tax sale fund upon the claim of the purchaser, to be audited and allowed by the county board 
87.6 	as in case of other claims against the county. No timber, except hardwood pulpwood, may 
87.7 	be removed from the parcels of land or other designated landings until scaled by a person 
87.8 	or persons designated by the county board and approved by the commissioner of natural 
87.9 	resources. Landings other than the parcel of land from which timber is cut may be designated 
87.10 	for scaling by the county board by written agreement with the purchaser of the timber. The 
87.11 	county board may, by written agreement with the purchaser and with a consumer designated 
87.12 	by the purchaser when the timber is sold by the county auditor, and with the approval of 
87.13 	the commissioner of natural resources, accept the consumer's scale of cut products delivered 
87.14 	at the consumer's landing. No timber shall be removed until fully paid for in cash. Small 
87.15 	amounts of timber not exceeding 500 cords in appraised volume may be sold for not less 
87.16 	than the full appraised value at private sale to individual persons without first publishing 
87.17 	notice of sale or calling for bids, provided that in case of a sale involving a total appraised 
87.18 	value of more than $200 the sale shall be made subject to final settlement on the basis of a 
87.19 	scale of cut products in the manner above provided and not more than two of the sales, 
87.20 	directly or indirectly to any individual shall be in effect at one time.
87.21 	(d) As directed by the county board, the county auditor may lease tax-forfeited land to 
87.22 	individuals, corporations or organized subdivisions of the state at public or private sale, and 
87.23 	at the prices and under the terms as the county board may prescribe, for use as cottage and 
87.24 	camp sites and for agricultural purposes and for the purpose of taking and removing of hay, 
87.25 	stumpage, sand, gravel, clay, rock, marl, and black dirt from the land, and for garden sites 
87.26 	and other temporary uses provided that no leases shall be for a period to exceed ten 25 years; 
87.27 	provided, further that any leases involving a consideration of more than $12,000 $50,000
87.28 	per year, except to an organized subdivision of the state shall first be offered at public sale 
87.29 	in the manner provided herein for sale of timber. Upon the sale of any leased land, it shall 
87.30 	remain subject to the lease for not to exceed one year from the beginning of the term of the 
87.31 	lease. Any rent paid by the lessee for the portion of the term cut off by the cancellation shall 
87.32 	be refunded from the forfeited tax sale fund upon the claim of the lessee, to be audited and 
87.33 	allowed by the county board as in case of other claims against the county.
87.34 	(e) As directed by the county board, the county auditor may lease tax-forfeited land to 
87.35 	individuals, corporations, or organized subdivisions of the state at public or private sale, at 
88.1 	the prices and under the terms as the county board may prescribe, for the purpose of taking 
88.2 	and removing for use for road construction and other purposes tax-forfeited stockpiled 
88.3 	iron-bearing material. The county auditor must determine that the material is needed and 
88.4 	suitable for use in the construction or maintenance of a road, tailings basin, settling basin, 
88.5 	dike, dam, bank fill, or other works on public or private property, and that the use would 
88.6 	be in the best interests of the public. No lease shall exceed ten years. The use of a stockpile 
88.7 	for these purposes must first be approved by the commissioner of natural resources. The 
88.8 	request shall be deemed approved unless the requesting county is notified to the contrary 
88.9 	by the commissioner of natural resources within six months after receipt of a request for 
88.10 	approval for use of a stockpile. Once use of a stockpile has been approved, the county may 
88.11 	continue to lease it for these purposes until approval is withdrawn by the commissioner of 
88.12 	natural resources.
88.13 	(f) The county auditor, with the approval of the county board is authorized to grant 
88.14 	permits, licenses, and leases to tax-forfeited lands for the depositing of stripping, lean ores, 
88.15 	tailings, or waste products from mines or ore milling plants, or to use for facilities needed 
88.16 	to recover iron-bearing oxides from tailings basins or stockpiles, or for a buffer area needed 
88.17 	for a mining operation, upon the conditions and for the consideration and for the period of 
88.18 	time, not exceeding 25 years, as the county board may determine. The permits, licenses, or 
88.19 	leases are subject to approval by the commissioner of natural resources.
88.20 	(g) Any person who removes any timber from tax-forfeited land before said timber has 
88.21 	been scaled and fully paid for as provided in this subdivision is guilty of a misdemeanor.
88.22 	(h) The county auditor may, with the approval of the county board, and without first 
88.23 	offering at public sale, grant leases, for a term not exceeding 25 years, for the removal of 
88.24 	peat and for the production or removal of farm-grown closed-loop biomass as defined in 
88.25 	section 216B.2424, subdivision 1, or short-rotation woody crops from tax-forfeited lands 
88.26 	upon the terms and conditions as the county board may prescribe. Any lease for the removal 
88.27 	of peat, farm-grown closed-loop biomass, or short-rotation woody crops from tax-forfeited 
88.28 	lands must first be reviewed and approved by the commissioner of natural resources if the 
88.29 	lease covers 320 or more acres. No lease for the removal of peat, farm-grown closed-loop 
88.30 	biomass, or short-rotation woody crops shall be made by the county auditor pursuant to this 
88.31 	section without first holding a public hearing on the auditor's intention to lease. One printed 
88.32 	notice in a legal newspaper in the county at least ten days before the hearing, and posted 
88.33 	notice in the courthouse at least 20 days before the hearing shall be given of the hearing.
88.34 	(i) Notwithstanding any provision of paragraph (c) to the contrary, the St. Louis County 
88.35 	auditor may, at the discretion of the county board, sell timber to the party who bids the 
89.1 	highest price for all the several kinds of timber, as provided for sales by the commissioner 
89.2 	of natural resources under section 90.14. Bids offered over and above the appraised price 
89.3 	need not be applied proportionately to the appraised price of each of the different species 
89.4 	of timber.
89.5 	(j) In lieu of any payment or deposit required in paragraph (b), as directed by the county 
89.6 	board and under terms set by the county board, the county auditor may accept an irrevocable 
89.7 	bank letter of credit in the amount equal to the amount otherwise determined in paragraph 
89.8 	(b). If an irrevocable bank letter of credit is provided under this paragraph, at the written 
89.9 	request of the purchaser, the county may periodically allow the bank letter of credit to be 
89.10 	reduced by an amount proportionate to the value of timber that has been harvested and for 
89.11 	which the county has received payment. The remaining amount of the bank letter of credit 
89.12 	after a reduction under this paragraph must not be less than 20 percent of the value of the 
89.13 	timber purchased. If an irrevocable bank letter of credit or cash deposit is provided for the 
89.14 	down payment required in paragraph (b), and no cutting of timber has taken place on the 
89.15 	contract for which a letter of credit has been provided, the county may allow the transfer 
89.16 	of the letter of credit to any other contract issued to the contract holder by the county under 
89.17 	this chapter to which the contract holder requests in writing that it be credited.
89.18 	(k) As directed by the county board, the county auditor may lease tax-forfeited land 
89.19 	under the terms and conditions prescribed by the county board for the purposes of 
89.20 	investigating, analyzing, and developing conservation easements that provide ecosystem 
89.21 	services.

89.22 	Sec. 6. Minnesota Statutes 2020, section 282.04, is amended by adding a subdivision to 
89.23 	read:
89.24 		Subd. 4b.Conservation easements. The county auditor, with prior review and 
89.25 	consultation with the commissioner of natural resources and under the terms and conditions 
89.26 	prescribed by the county board, including reversion in the event of nonuse, may convey 
89.27 	conservation easements as defined in section 84C.01 on tax-forfeited land.

89.28 	Sec. 7. ADDITION TO STATE PARK.
 89.29 	[85.012] [Subd. 27.] Myre-Big Island State Park, Freeborn County. The following 
89.30 	area is added to Myre-Big Island State Park, Freeborn County: all that part of the Northeast 
89.31 	Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 11, Township 102 North, Range 21 West of the 
89.32 	5th principal meridian, lying South of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railway, 
89.33 	and subject to road easement on the easterly side thereof.

90.1 	Sec. 8. DELETION FROM STATE FOREST.
 90.2 	[89.021] [Subd. 13.] Cloquet Valley State Forest. The following areas are deleted from 
90.3 	Cloquet Valley State Forest:
90.4 	(1) those parts of St. Louis County in Township 52 North, Range 16 West, described as 
90.5 	follows:
90.6 	(i) Government Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 and the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, 
90.7 	Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, and Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, 
90.8 	Section 21;
90.9 	(ii) Government Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 and the Northeast Quarter of the 
90.10 	Northwest Quarter and Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, Section 22;
90.11 	(iii) Government Lot 3, Section 23;
90.12 	(iv) Government Lot 2, Section 24;
90.13 	(v) Government Lots 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10, Section 25;
90.14 	(vi) Government Lot 1, Section 26;
90.15 	(vii) Government Lots 2 and 7, Section 26;
90.16 	(viii) Government Lots 3 and 4, Section 27, reserving unto grantor and grantor's 
90.17 	successors and assigns a 66-foot-wide access road easement across said Government Lot 3 
90.18 	for the purpose of access to grantor's or grantor's successor's or assign's land and grantor's 
90.19 	presently owned land that may be sold, assigned, or transferred in Government Lot 1, Section 
90.20 	27, said access road being measured 33 feet from each side of the centerline of that road 
90.21 	that is presently existing at various widths and running in a generally 
90.22 	southwesterly-northeasterly direction;
90.23 	(ix) Government Lots 1 and 2, Section 28;
90.24 	(x) Government Lots 1, 2, 3, and 5 and the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter 
90.25 	and Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, Section 29;
90.26 	(xi) Government Lots 1, 2, 3, and 4, Section 31, reserving unto grantor and grantor's 
90.27 	successors and assigns a 66-foot-wide access road easement across said Government Lots 
90.28 	1, 2, and 3 for the purpose of access to grantor's or grantor's successor's or assign's land and 
90.29 	grantor's presently owned lands that may be sold, assigned, or transferred in Government 
90.30 	Lot 4, Section 29, said access road being measured 33 feet from each side of the centerline 
90.31 	of that road that is presently existing at various widths and running in a generally East-West 
91.1 	direction and any future extensions thereof as may be reasonably necessary to provide the 
91.2 	access contemplated herein;
91.3 	(xii) Government Lots 5, 7, 8, and 9, Section 31;
91.4 	(xiii) Government Lots 1 and 2, an undivided two-thirds interest in the Northeast Quarter 
91.5 	of the Northwest Quarter, an undivided two-thirds interest in the Southeast Quarter of the 
91.6 	Northwest Quarter, and an undivided two-thirds interest in the Southwest Quarter of the 
91.7 	Northwest Quarter, Section 32, reserving unto grantor and grantor's successors and assigns 
91.8 	an access road easement across the West 66 feet of the North 66 feet of said Government 
91.9 	Lot 1 for the purpose of access to grantor's or grantor's successor's or assign's land and 
91.10 	grantor's presently owned land that may be sold, assigned, or transferred in Government 
91.11 	Lot 4, Section 29; and
91.12 	(xiv) the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, Section 35;
91.13 	(2) those parts of St. Louis County in Township 53 North, Range 13 West, described as 
91.14 	follows:
91.15 	(i) all that part of the Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter lying North and West 
91.16 	of the Little Cloquet River, Section 4;
91.17 	(ii) Government Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 and the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, 
91.18 	Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, 
91.19 	Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, 
91.20 	Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, and Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, 
91.21 	Section 5;
91.22 	(iii) Government Lots 1, 2, and 4 and the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, 
91.23 	Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, 
91.24 	Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, and Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, 
91.25 	Section 6;
91.26 	(iv) Government Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 and the Northwest Quarter of the Northeast 
91.27 	Quarter, Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, Northwest Quarter of the Northwest 
91.28 	Quarter, Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, Southwest Quarter of the Northwest 
91.29 	Quarter, Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, and Northeast Quarter of the Southwest 
91.30 	Quarter, Section 7;
91.31 	(v) Government Lots 1 and 2 and the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, 
91.32 	Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, 
91.33 	Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, 
92.1 	Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, and Southwest Quarter of the Southwest 
92.2 	Quarter, Section 8; and
92.3 	(vi) the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, Northwest Quarter of the Northwest 
92.4 	Quarter, Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, and Southwest Quarter of the Northwest 
92.5 	Quarter, Section 17;
92.6 	(3) those parts of St. Louis County in Township 54 North, Range 13 West, described as 
92.7 	follows:
92.8 	(i) Government Lots 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7, Section 20;
92.9 	(ii) Government Lots 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 and the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, 
92.10 	Section 21;
92.11 	(iii) Government Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7, Section 29;
92.12 	(iv) Government Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, and 10, Section 30; and
92.13 	(v) Government Lots 5, 6, and 7 and the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, 
92.14 	Northwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, 
92.15 	Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, and Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, 
92.16 	Section 31;
92.17 	(4) those parts of St. Louis County in Township 54 North, Range 16 West, described as 
92.18 	follows:
92.19 	(i) Government Lots 2, 3, and 4 and the Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, 
92.20 	Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, 
92.21 	and Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, Section 1;
92.22 	(ii) Government Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 and the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast 
92.23 	Quarter, Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, Southwest Quarter of the Southeast 
92.24 	Quarter, Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, Southeast Quarter of the Southwest 
92.25 	Quarter, and Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, Section 2;
92.26 	(iii) all that part of Government Lot 9 lying South of the Whiteface River and West of 
92.27 	County Road 547, also known as Comstock Lake Road, Section 3; and
92.28 	(iv) Government Lots 3 and 4 and the Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter and 
92.29 	Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, Section 10;
92.30 	(5) those parts of St. Louis County in Township 55 North, Range 15 West, described as 
92.31 	follows:
93.1 	(i) Government Lots 1 and 2, Section 11;
93.2 	(ii) Government Lot 9, except the Highway 4 right-of-way, Section 11;
93.3 	(iii) Government Lot 10, except the Highway 4 right-of-way, Section 11;
93.4 	(iv) Government Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, Section 15;
93.5 	(v) Government Lots 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 and the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest 
93.6 	Quarter, Section 21;
93.7 	(vi) the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, reserving unto grantor and grantor's 
93.8 	successors and assigns a 66-foot-wide access easement across said Southwest Quarter of 
93.9 	the Northeast Quarter for the purpose of access to grantor's or grantor's successor's or assign's 
93.10 	land and grantor's presently owned land that may be sold, assigned, or transferred in 
93.11 	Government Lot 4, Section 21, Township 55 North, Range 15 West, said access road being 
93.12 	measured 33 feet on each side of the centerline of that road that is presently existing and 
93.13 	known as the Whiteface Truck Trail, Section 21;
93.14 	(vii) Government Lots 1, 2, and 3, Section 22;
93.15 	(viii) Government Lots 1 and 2 and the Northeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, 
93.16 	Section 28;
93.17 	(ix) Government Lots 1, 4, 6, 8, and 9 and the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter, 
93.18 	Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, and Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, 
93.19 	Section 29;
93.20 	(x) Government Lots 3 and 4 and the Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, 
93.21 	Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, and Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, 
93.22 	Section 30;
93.23 	(xi) Government Lots 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 11 and the Northeast Quarter of the 
93.24 	Southwest Quarter, Section 31; and
93.25 	(xii) Government Lot 1, Section 32; and
93.26 	(6) those parts of St. Louis County in Township 55 North, Range 16 West, described as 
93.27 	follows:
93.28 	(i) the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, reserving unto grantor and grantor's 
93.29 	successors and assigns a 66-foot-wide access road easement across said Southwest Quarter 
93.30 	of the Southeast Quarter for the purpose of access to grantor's or grantor's successor's or 
93.31 	assign's land and grantor's presently owned land that may be sold, assigned, or transferred 
93.32 	in Government Lot 5, Section 1, Township 54 North, Range 16 West, Section 35; and
94.1 	(ii) the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, reserving unto grantor and grantor's 
94.2 	successors and assigns a 66-foot-wide access road easement across said Southeast Quarter 
94.3 	of the Southeast Quarter for the purpose of access to grantor's or grantor's successor's or 
94.4 	assign's land and grantor's presently owned land that may be sold, assigned, or transferred 
94.5 	in Government Lot 5, Section 1, Township 54 North, Range 16 West, Section 35.

94.6 	Sec. 9. ADDITION TO STATE FOREST.
 94.7 	[89.021] [Subd. 42a.] Riverlands State Forest. The following areas are added to 
94.8 	Riverlands State Forest, those parts of St. Louis County, described as follows:
94.9 	(1) the Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter, Section 16, Township 50 North, 
94.10 	Range 17 West;
94.11 	(2) Government Lot 9, Section 26, Township 50 North, Range 17 West;
94.12 	(3) the Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, Section 30, Township 51 North, 
94.13 	Range 19 West;
94.14 	(4) Government Lot 6, Section 22, Township 51 North, Range 20 West; and
94.15 	(5) Government Lot 9, Section 24, Township 52 North, Range 20 West.

94.16 	Sec. 10. PUBLIC SALE OF SURPLUS STATE LAND BORDERING PUBLIC 
94.17 	WATER; CASS COUNTY.
 94.18 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 92.45, the commissioner of natural 
94.19 	resources may sell by public sale the surplus land bordering public water that is described 
94.20 	in paragraph (c).
94.21 	(b) The commissioner may make necessary changes to the legal description to correct 
94.22 	errors and ensure accuracy.
94.23 	(c) The land that may be sold is located in Cass County and is described as:
94.24 	(1) the West 970 feet of the Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 32, 
94.25 	Township 135 North, Range 29 West, Cass County, Minnesota, EXCEPT therefrom a 
94.26 	rectangular piece in the southeast corner thereof 370 feet North and South by 420 feet East 
94.27 	and West; and
94.28 	(2) that part of Government Lot 6 of said Section 32, described as follows: beginning 
94.29 	at the northwest corner of said Government Lot 6; thence East along the north line of said 
94.30 	Government Lot 6 550 feet; thence South 30 degrees West 528 feet, more or less, to shoreline 
94.31 	of Agate Lake; thence northwest along said shoreline of Agate Lake to the west line of said 
95.1 	Government Lot 6; thence northerly along said west line 260 feet, more or less, to the point 
95.2 	of beginning.
95.3 	(d) The land borders Agate Lake and is not contiguous to other state lands. The 
95.4 	Department of Natural Resources has determined that the land is not needed for natural 
95.5 	resource purposes and that the state's land management interests would best be served if 
95.6 	the land was returned to private ownership.

95.7 	Sec. 11. PUBLIC SALE OF SURPLUS STATE LAND BORDERING PUBLIC 
95.8 	WATER; FILLMORE COUNTY.
 95.9 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 92.45, the commissioner of natural 
95.10 	resources may sell by public sale the surplus land bordering public water that is described 
95.11 	in paragraph (c), subject to the state's reservation of trout stream easements.
95.12 	(b) The commissioner may make necessary changes to the legal description to correct 
95.13 	errors and ensure accuracy.
95.14 	(c) The land that may be sold is located in Fillmore County and is described as: the South 
95.15 	13 acres, except the East 2 acres thereof, of the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter, 
95.16 	Section 21, Township 103, Range 10 West, Fillmore County, Minnesota, excepting therefrom 
95.17 	the Harmony-Preston Valley State Trail corridor, formerly the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. 
95.18 	Paul and Pacific Railroad Company right-of-way.
95.19 	(d) The land borders the Root River and Watson Creek and is not contiguous to other 
95.20 	state lands. The Department of Natural Resources has determined that the land is not needed 
95.21 	for natural resource purposes, provided that trout stream easements are reserved on the Root 
95.22 	River and Watson Creek, and that the state's land management interests would best be served 
95.23 	if the land was returned to private ownership.

95.24 	Sec. 12. CONVEYANCE OF TAX-FORFEITED LAND BORDERING PUBLIC 
95.25 	WATER; GOODHUE COUNTY.
 95.26 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45 and 282.018, subdivision 1, and 
95.27 	the public sale provisions of Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282, Goodhue County may convey 
95.28 	to the city of Wanamingo for no consideration the tax-forfeited land bordering public water 
95.29 	that is described in paragraph (c).
95.30 	(b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the attorney general and provide 
95.31 	that the land reverts to the state if the city of Wanamingo stops using the land for the public 
96.1 	purpose described in paragraph (d). The attorney general may make changes to the land 
96.2 	description to correct errors and ensure accuracy.
96.3 	(c) The land to be conveyed is located in Goodhue County and is described as: That part 
96.4 	of the Southeast Quarter of Section 30, Township 110 North, Range 16 West, Goodhue 
96.5 	County, Minnesota, described as follows: Commencing at the northeast corner of Lot 7, 
96.6 	Block 2, Axelson's Hillcrest Addition, according to the recorded plat thereof; thence South 
96.7 	89 degrees 48 minutes 15 seconds East (assuming that the east line of Axelson's Hillcrest 
96.8 	Addition also being the west line of the Southeast Quarter of said Section 30, has a bearing 
96.9 	of North 00 degrees 11 minutes 45 seconds East), a distance of 30.00 feet; thence North 00 
96.10 	degrees 11 minutes 45 seconds East, a distance of 342.00 feet to the point of beginning; 
96.11 	thence South 89 degrees 48 minutes 15 seconds East, a distance of 60.00 feet; thence North 
96.12 	00 degrees 11 minutes 45 seconds East, a distance of 280.00 feet; thence South 89 degrees 
96.13 	48 minutes 15 seconds East, a distance of 60.00 feet; thence North 00 degrees 11 minutes 
96.14 	45 seconds East, a distance of 394 feet, more or less to the north line of the Southeast Quarter 
96.15 	of said Section 30; thence westerly, along said north line, a distance of 150.00 feet, more 
96.16 	or less, to the northwest corner of said Southeast Quarter; thence South 00 degrees 11 
96.17 	minutes 45 seconds West, along the west line of said Southeast Quarter, a distance of 674 
96.18 	feet, more or less, to an intersection with a line bearing North 89 degrees 48 minutes 15 
96.19 	seconds West from said point of beginning; thence South 89 degrees 48 minutes 15 seconds 
96.20 	East, a distance of 30.00 feet to the point of beginning. EXCEPT that part of the above 
96.21 	description now platted as Emerald Valley (parcel number 70.380.0710).
96.22 	(d) The county has determined that the land is needed for a park trail extension.

96.23 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

96.24 	Sec. 13. PRIVATE SALE OF SURPLUS LAND BORDERING PUBLIC WATER; 
96.25 	HENNEPIN COUNTY.
 96.26 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45, 94.09, and 94.10, the 
96.27 	commissioner of natural resources may sell by private sale the surplus land bordering public 
96.28 	water that is described in paragraph (c) to a local unit of government for less than market 
96.29 	value.
96.30 	(b) The commissioner may make necessary changes to the legal description to correct 
96.31 	errors and ensure accuracy.
96.32 	(c) The land that may be conveyed is located in Hennepin County and is described as: 
96.33 	all those parts of Government Lot 5, Section 35, Township 118, Range 23, lying northerly 
97.1 	and northwesterly of East Long Lake Road, as it existed in 2021, easterly of a line drawn 
97.2 	parallel with and distant 924.88 feet westerly of the east line of said Government Lot 5, and 
97.3 	southerly of a line drawn westerly at a right angle to the east line of said Government Lot 
97.4 	5 from a point distant 620 feet South of the northeast corner of said Government Lot 5.
97.5 	(d) The land borders Long Lake. The Department of Natural Resources has determined 
97.6 	that the land is not needed for natural resource purposes and that the state's land management 
97.7 	interests would best be served if the land were conveyed to a local unit of government.

97.8 	Sec. 14. PUBLIC SALE OF SURPLUS STATE LAND BORDERING PUBLIC 
97.9 	WATER; ITASCA COUNTY.
 97.10 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 92.45, the commissioner of natural 
97.11 	resources may sell by public sale the surplus land bordering public water that is described 
97.12 	in paragraph (c).
97.13 	(b) The commissioner may make necessary changes to the legal description to correct 
97.14 	errors and ensure accuracy.
97.15 	(c) The land that may be sold is located in Itasca County and is described as:
97.16 	(1) the North 1,050.00 feet of Government Lot 1, Section 16, Township 55 North, Range 
97.17 	24 West of the fourth principal meridian, except that part described as follows: commencing 
97.18 	at the southeast corner of said Government Lot 1; thence North 0 degrees 46 minutes 09 
97.19 	seconds East, bearing assumed, along the east line thereof, a distance of 280.00 feet to the 
97.20 	point of beginning; thence North 89 degrees 13 minutes 51 seconds West, a distance of 
97.21 	345.00 feet; thence South 0 degrees 46 minutes 09 seconds West, a distance of 21.60 feet 
97.22 	to its intersection with the south line of the North 1,050.00 feet of said Government Lot 1; 
97.23 	thence South 89 degrees 08 minutes 51 seconds East along the south line of the North 
97.24 	1,050.00 feet of said Government Lot 1, a distance of 345.00 feet to the east line of said 
97.25 	Government Lot 1; thence North 0 degrees 46 minutes 09 seconds East, along the east line 
97.26 	of said Government Lot 1, a distance of 22.10 feet to the point of beginning. Subject to an 
97.27 	easement for ingress and egress over 66.00 feet in width, over, under, and across part of 
97.28 	Government Lot 1, Section 16, Township 55, Range 24. The centerline of said easement is 
97.29 	described as follows: commencing at the northeast corner of said Government Lot 1; thence 
97.30 	South 0 degrees 46 minutes 09 seconds West, bearing assumed, along the east line thereof, 
97.31 	a distance of 750.00 feet to the point of beginning of the centerline to be described; thence 
97.32 	North 89 degrees 08 minutes 51 seconds West, a distance of 845.00 feet; thence South 7 
97.33 	degrees 18 minutes 51 seconds East, a distance of 302.89 feet, and there terminating; and
98.1 	(2) Lots 1 through 4 of Block 2 and Outlot "B," Loons Landing, according to the plat 
98.2 	thereof on file and of record in the Office of the Itasca County Recorder.
98.3 	(d) The land borders Trout Lake. The Department of Natural Resources has determined 
98.4 	that the land is not needed for natural resource purposes and that the state's land management 
98.5 	interests would best be served if the land was returned to private ownership.

98.6 	Sec. 15. CONVEYANCE OF SURPLUS STATE LAND BORDERING PUBLIC 
98.7 	WATER; LAKE COUNTY.
 98.8 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45, 94.09, and 94.10, or any other 
98.9 	state law to the contrary and unless prohibited by federal law, the commissioner of natural 
98.10 	resources may convey to the city of Two Harbors for no consideration the surplus land that 
98.11 	is described in paragraph (c).
98.12 	(b) The conveyance must be in a form approved by the attorney general and must provide 
98.13 	that the proceeds of the sale of any portion of the land described in paragraph (c) by the city 
98.14 	be paid to the state. The attorney general may make changes to the land description to correct 
98.15 	errors and ensure accuracy.
98.16 	(c) The land to be sold is located in Lake County and is described as:
98.17 	(1) that part of Government Lot 1, Section 1, Township 52 North, Range 11 West of the 
98.18 	4th Principal Meridian, Lake County, Minnesota, lying southerly and easterly of the following 
98.19 	described lines: commencing at the center east 1/16 corner; thence along the North-South 
98.20 	1/16 line on an assumed bearing of North 00 degrees 46 minutes 07 seconds East 144.23 
98.21 	feet; thence North 67 degrees 30 minutes 43 seconds West 385.00 feet; thence North 22 
98.22 	degrees 29 minutes 17 seconds East 24.00 feet; thence South 67 degrees 30 minutes 43 
98.23 	seconds East 385.00 feet; thence easterly a distance of 232.90 feet along a tangential curve 
98.24 	concave to the North having a radius of 611.85 feet and central angle of 21 degrees 48 
98.25 	minutes 36 seconds; thence South 89 degrees 19 minutes 19 seconds East 1,015.67 feet; 
98.26 	thence South 00 degrees 40 minutes 41 seconds West 35.00 feet; thence South 89 degrees 
98.27 	19 minutes 19 seconds East 73.08 feet to the east line of said Government Lot 1 and the 
98.28 	point of beginning of said line; thence North 89 degrees 19 minutes 19 seconds West 877.08 
98.29 	feet; thence North 00 degrees 40 minutes 41 seconds East 11.00 feet; thence North 89 
98.30 	degrees 19 minutes 19 seconds West 28.86 feet; thence South 0 degrees 51 minutes 25 
98.31 	seconds West 19.82 feet to a 3/4-inch by 24-inch rebar marked "MN DNR LS 16098" (DNR 
98.32 	monument); thence continuing South 00 degrees 51 minutes 25 seconds West 484.06 feet 
98.33 	to a DNR monument; thence continuing South 00 degrees 51 minutes 25 seconds West 78 
99.1 	feet, more or less to the shore of Lake Superior and there terminating; containing 14.5 acres, 
99.2 	more or less (parcel identification number 23-7600-01415);
99.3 	(2) that part of Government Lot 3, Section 6, Township 52 North, Range 10 West of the 
99.4 	Fourth Principal Meridian, described as follows: commencing at the West Quarter corner 
99.5 	of said Section 6 (northwest corner of said Government Lot 3); thence North 88 degrees 43 
99.6 	minutes 09 seconds East along the north line of said Government Lot 3 a distance of 485.19 
99.7 	feet; thence South 00 degrees 20 minutes 34 seconds East a distance of 16 feet, more or 
99.8 	less, to the south line of the northerly 16 feet of said Government Lot 3, being the point of 
99.9 	beginning of the parcel described herein; thence continuing South 00 degrees 20 minutes 
99.10 	34 seconds East a distance of 584 feet, more or less, to a line lying within 600 feet and South 
99.11 	of the North boundary of said Government 3; thence westerly, along said line, to the west 
99.12 	line of said Government Lot 3; thence northerly, along the west line of the said Government 
99.13 	Lot 3 to the south line of the northerly 16 feet of said Government Lot 3; thence easterly 
99.14 	along the south line of the northerly 16 feet of said Government Lot 3 to the point of 
99.15 	beginning; except minerals (parcel identification number 23-7600-06605);
99.16 	(3) together with that part of Government Lot 3, Section 6, Township 52 North, Range 
99.17 	10 West of the 4th Principal Meridian, Lake County, Minnesota lying West of the following 
99.18 	described line: commencing at the West Quarter corner of said Section 6 (northwest corner 
99.19 	of said Government Lot 3); thence North 88 degrees 43 minutes 09 seconds East along the 
99.20 	north line of said Government Lot 3 a distance of 485.19 feet to the point of beginning of 
99.21 	said line; thence South 00 degrees 20 minutes 34 seconds East a distance of 766.64 feet; 
99.22 	thence South 54 degrees 38 minutes 48 seconds West a distance of 235 feet, more or less, 
99.23 	to the shore of Lake Superior, and there terminating, except that part lying within 600 feet 
99.24 	and South of the North boundary of said Government Lot 3; containing 2.4 acres, more or 
99.25 	less (parcel identification number 23-7600-06607); and
99.26 	(4) that part of Government Lot 3, Section 6, Township 52 North, Range 10 West, of 
99.27 	the Fourth Principal Meridian, described as follows: commencing at the West Quarter corner 
99.28 	of said Section 6 (northwest corner of said Government Lot 3); thence North 88 degrees 43 
99.29 	minutes 09 seconds East along the north line of said Government Lot 3 a distance of 485.19 
99.30 	feet; thence South 00 degrees 20 minutes 34 seconds East a distance of 766.64 feet, to a 
99.31 	5/8-foot rebar marked "RLS No. 16089," also being the point of beginning; thence South 
99.32 	25 degrees 10 minutes 17 seconds East a distance of 51.74 feet to a 3/4-inch by 12-inch 
99.33 	rebar marked "MN DNR LS 16098" (DNR monument); thence South 30 degrees 09 minutes 
99.34 	12 seconds East a distance of 583.16 feet to a DNR monument; thence South 88 degrees 
99.35 	01 minute 03 seconds West a distance of 124.04 feet to a DNR monument; thence South 
100.1 	07 degrees 58 minutes 29 seconds East a distance of 517.23 feet to a DNR monument; 
100.2 	thence continuing South 07 degrees 58 minutes 29 seconds East a distance of 76 feet, more 
100.3 	or less, to the shoreline of Lake Superior; thence northwesterly, northerly, northeasterly, 
100.4 	and northwesterly a distance of 1,390 feet, more or less, along said shoreline to point which 
100.5 	bears South 54 degrees 38 minutes 48 seconds West from the point of beginning; thence 
100.6 	North 54 degrees 38 minutes 48 seconds East a distance of 25 feet, more or less, to a DNR 
100.7 	monument; thence continuing North 54 degrees 38 minutes 48 seconds East a distance of 
100.8 	210.00 feet to the point of beginning and there terminating (parcel identification number 
100.9 	23-7600-06611).
100.10 	(d) The commissioner has determined that the land is no longer needed for any state 
100.11 	purpose and that the state's land management interests would best be served if the land was 
100.12 	conveyed to the city of Two Harbors.

100.13 	Sec. 16. PRIVATE SALE OF SURPLUS STATE LAND; PINE COUNTY.
 100.14 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 94.09 and 94.10, the commissioner of 
100.15 	natural resources may sell by private sale the surplus land that is described in paragraph (c), 
100.16 	subject to the state's reservation of a perpetual flowage easement.
100.17 	(b) The commissioner may make necessary changes to the legal description to correct 
100.18 	errors and ensure accuracy.
100.19 	(c) The land that may be sold is located in Pine County and is described as: the north 2 
100.20 	rods of the Southeast Quarter of Section 10, Township 38 North, Range 22 West, Pine 
100.21 	County, Minnesota.
100.22 	(d) The Department of Natural Resources has determined that the land is not needed for 
100.23 	natural resource purposes and that the state's land management interests would best be 
100.24 	served if the land was returned to private ownership.

100.25 	Sec. 17. LAND EXCHANGE; ST. LOUIS COUNTY.
 100.26 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, section 92.461, and the riparian restrictions in 
100.27 	Minnesota Statutes, section 94.342, subdivision 3, St. Louis County may, with the approval 
100.28 	of the Land Exchange Board as required under the Minnesota Constitution, article XI, 
100.29 	section 10, and according to the remaining provisions of Minnesota Statutes, sections 94.342 
100.30 	to 94.347, exchange the land described in paragraph (c).
101.1 	(b) The conveyance must be in the form approved by the attorney general. The attorney 
101.2 	general may make necessary changes to the legal description to correct errors and ensure 
101.3 	accuracy.
101.4 	(c) The lands that may be conveyed are located in St. Louis County and are described 
101.5 	as:
101.6 	(1) Sections 1 and 2, Township 53 North, Range 18 West;
101.7 	(2) Sections 19, 20, 29, 30, 31, and 32, Township 54 North, Range 17 West;
101.8 	(3) Sections 24, 25, 26, and 35, Township 54 North, Range 18 West;
101.9 	(4) Sections 22, 23, 26, and 27, Township 54 North, Range 19 West; and
101.10 	(5) Sections 8, 9, 17, and 18, Township 55 North, Range 18 West.

101.11 	Sec. 18. LAND ACQUISITION TRUST FUND; ST. LOUIS COUNTY.
 101.12 	Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282, and any other law relating to the 
101.13 	apportionment of proceeds from the sale of tax-forfeited land, St. Louis County may deposit 
101.14 	proceeds from the sale of tax-forfeited lands into a tax-forfeited land acquisition trust fund 
101.15 	established by St. Louis County under this section. The principal and interest from the fund 
101.16 	may be spent on the purchase of lands better suited for retention and management by St. 
101.17 	Louis County. Lands purchased with money from the land acquisition trust fund must:
101.18 	(1) become subject to a trust in favor of the governmental subdivision wherein the lands 
101.19 	lie and all laws related to tax-forfeited lands; and
101.20 	(2) be used for forestry, mineral management, or environmental services.

101.21 	Sec. 19. PRIVATE SALE OF TAX-FORFEITED LANDS; ST. LOUIS COUNTY.
 101.22 	(a) Notwithstanding the public sale provisions of Minnesota Statutes, chapter 282, or 
101.23 	other law to the contrary, St. Louis County may sell by private sale the tax-forfeited lands 
101.24 	described in paragraph (c).
101.25 	(b) The conveyances must be in a form approved by the attorney general. The attorney 
101.26 	general may make changes to the land descriptions to correct errors and ensure accuracy.
101.27 	(c) The lands to be sold are located in St. Louis County and are described as:
101.28 	(1) Lots 23 through 30, including part of adjacent vacant alley, Block 54, Bay View 
101.29 	Addition to Duluth No. 2, Township 49, Range 15, Section 11 (parcel identification number 
101.30 	010-0230-03300); and
102.1 	(2) Lot 2, except the South 760 feet, Township 62, Range 20, Section 18 (part of parcel 
102.2 	identification number 430-0010-02916).
102.3 	(d) The county has determined that the county's land management interests would best 
102.4 	be served if the lands were returned to private ownership.

102.5 	Sec. 20. PRIVATE SALE OF SURPLUS LAND BORDERING PUBLIC WATER; 
102.6 	SHERBURNE COUNTY.
 102.7 	(a) Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 92.45, 94.09, and 94.10, the 
102.8 	commissioner of natural resources may sell by private sale the surplus land bordering public 
102.9 	water that is described in paragraph (c) for less than market value.
102.10 	(b) The commissioner may make necessary changes to the legal description to correct 
102.11 	errors and ensure accuracy.
102.12 	(c) The land that may be conveyed is located in Sherburne County and is described as: 
102.13 	that part of the North 595.50 feet of Government Lot 6, Section 31, Township 34 North, 
102.14 	Range 27 West, Sherburne County, Minnesota, lying southerly of the following described 
102.15 	line: commencing at a Minnesota Department of Conservation monument on the south line 
102.16 	of the said North 595.50 feet; thence North 89 degrees 38 minutes 17 seconds West, bearing 
102.17 	per plat of Eagle Lake Estates Boundary Registration, along said south line 71.28 feet to a 
102.18 	Judicial Land Mark; thence North 21 degrees 51 minutes 43 seconds West, along the easterly 
102.19 	line of Outlot A of said Eagle Lake Estates Boundary Registration 27.5 feet to the point of 
102.20 	beginning; thence North 80 degrees East 72 feet, more or less, to the shoreline of Eagle 
102.21 	Lake and there terminating.
102.22 	(d) The Department of Natural Resources has determined that the land is not needed for 
102.23 	natural resource purposes and that the state's land management interests would best be 
102.24 	served if the land were returned to private ownership.

102.25 	Sec. 21. REPEALER.
 102.26 	Laws 2012, chapter 236, section 28, subdivision 9, as amended by Laws 2016, chapter 
102.27 	154, section 11, Laws 2019, First Special Session chapter 4, article 4, section 7, is repealed.

102.28 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective the day following final enactment.

APPENDIX 

Repealed Minnesota Statutes: S4062-2 

97B.318 ARMS USE AREAS AND RESTRICTIONS; REGULAR FIREARMS SEASON.Subdivision 1.Shotgun use area. 
During the regular firearms season in the shotgun use area, only legal shotguns loaded with single-slug shotgun shells, legal muzzle-loading long guns, and legal handguns may be used for taking deer. Legal shotguns include those with rifled barrels. The shotgun use area is that portion of the state lying within the following described boundary: Beginning on the west boundary of the state at the northern boundary of Clay County; thence along the northern boundary of Clay County to State Trunk Highway (STH) 32; thence along STH 32 to STH 34; thence along STH 34 to Interstate Highway 94 (I-94); thence along I-94 to County State-Aid Highway (CSAH) 40, Douglas County; thence along CSAH 40 to CSAH 82, Douglas County; thence along CSAH 82 to CSAH 22, Douglas County; thence along CSAH 22 to CSAH 6, Douglas County; thence along CSAH 6 to CSAH 14, Douglas County; thence along CSAH 14 to STH 29; thence along STH 29 to CSAH 46, Otter Tail County; thence along CSAH 46, Otter Tail County, to CSAH 22, Todd County; thence along CSAH 22 to U.S. Highway 71; thence along U.S. Highway 71 to STH 27; thence along STH 27 to the Mississippi River; thence along the east bank of the Mississippi River to STH 23; thence along STH 23 to STH 95; thence along STH 95 to U.S. Highway 8; thence along U.S. Highway 8 to the eastern boundary of the state; thence along the east, south, and west boundaries of the state to the point of beginning. 

Subd. 2.All legal firearms use area. 
The all legal firearms use area is that part of the state lying outside of the shotgun use area. 

97C.515 IMPORTED MINNOWS.Subd. 4.Private fish hatchery or aquatic farm. 
Live minnows used for feeding fish at a licensed private fish hatchery or aquatic farm must be obtained within the state. Dead minnows may be imported for feeding hatchery or aquatic farm fish according to section 97C.341, paragraph (d). 

Subd. 5.Special permits. 
(a) The commissioner may issue a special permit, without a fee, to allow a person with a private fish hatchery license, which private fish hatchery has been designated as a containment facility under section 17.4982, subdivision 8, to import live minnows from other states for export. A containment facility for the purposes of this section applies to live minnows imported for later export and does not need to comply with section 17.4982, subdivision 8, clause (4). The permit shall include conditions necessary to avoid spreading aquatic invasive species and fish pathogens. Permits shall not be issued to containment facilities located within a 25-year floodplain. 

(b) An applicant for a permit under this subdivision shall submit to the commissioner sufficient information to identify potential threats to native plant and animal species and an evaluation of the feasibility of the proposal. The permit may include reasonable restrictions on importation, transportation, possession, containment, disease certification, and disposal of minnows to ensure that native species are protected. The permit may have a term of up to two years and may be modified, suspended, or revoked by the commissioner for cause, including violation of a condition of the permit. 

(c) The premises, property, vehicles, private aquatic life, and equipment that are part of a containment facility permitted under this subdivision are subject to reasonable and necessary inspections at reasonable times by a fish health specialist delegated by the commissioner. The owner, operator, or designee may be present when inspections are conducted. During the inspection, a representative sample of imported minnows may be collected for the purpose of fish pathogen or invasive species screening. 

(d) The commissioner may require the applicant to furnish evidence of financial responsibility at the time of application for a permit under this section, as prescribed by the commissioner. 

Repealed Minnesota Session Laws: S4062-2 

Laws 2012, chapter 236, section 28, subdivision 9, as amended by Laws 2019, First Special Session chapter 4, article 4, section 7; 
Sec. 28. SALE OF TAX-FORFEITED LEASED LANDS; ST. LOUIS COUNTY. Subd. 9.Sunset. 
This section expires seven ten years after the effective date. 

Laws 2013, chapter 121, section 53
Sec. 53. ANTLER POINT RESTRICTIONS. 
The commissioner of natural resources may not impose an antler point restriction in areas outside the Series 300 deer permit areas, other than that imposed under Minnesota Rules, part 6232.0200, subpart 6, unless the legislature approves the antler point restriction. 

6100.5000SNOWMOBILE REGISTRATION AND DISPLAY OF NUMBERS. Subp. 3.Affixation of number.  
The registration number of the snowmobile, shown on the registration certificate, shall be affixed to the snowmobile and maintained in a clear, legible manner. On all machines made after June 30, 1972, and sold in Minnesota, such registration number shall be affixed in the space provided therefor in accordance with part 6100.5700, subpart 4. On all other machines it shall be affixed on each side of the cowling on the upper half of the machine, as follows. 

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Subp. 4.Description of decal or number; lost or destroyed number or decal.  
 All letters and numbers shall be of a color which will contrast with the surface to which applied, and shall be at least three inches high and three-eighths inch stroke. When any previously affixed registration number or decal is destroyed or lost, a duplicate shall be affixed in the manner shown above. The registration number shall remain the same if renewed by July 1 following the expiration date. 

Subp. 5.General prohibition.  
No person shall operate or transport, and no person shall permit the operation of, a snowmobile within this state which does not have its registration number and unexpired decal affixed in the form and manner required by this part, unless the owner is exempted from the registration requirements of this state by Minnesota Statutes, section 84.82. 

6100.5700REQUIRED EQUIPMENT. Subp. 4.Snowmobile registration number affixation.  
All snowmobiles made after June 30, 1972, and sold in Minnesota, shall be designed and made to provide an area on which to affix the snowmobile registration number at the following location and of the following dimensions: 

A.
 A clear area shall be provided on each side of the cowling or pan with the minimum size of 3-1/2 inches vertical by 11 inches horizontal. 

B.
 It shall be a minimum of 12 inches from the ground when the machine is resting on a hard surface. 

6232.0350RESTRICTIONS FOR TAKING DEER; 300 SERIES DEER PERMIT AREAS. 
Notwithstanding part 6232.0200, subpart 6, in all 300 series deer permit areas, a legal buck is defined as a deer with a minimum of four antler points on at least one antler. Bucks with fewer antler points than the minimum defined points are protected and not legal for harvest. Youth hunters, age 10 to 17, are exempt from this part.